AI Study Assistant: Chat With Your Textbooks and Research Papers
Upload textbooks, lecture notes, academic papers, or study guides and ask questions in plain language. LearnByAi transforms static documents into interactive tutors that answer exactly what you need to know.
Supported Document Types
What can you upload?
Upload PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, or text files — or scanned and photographed documents. Scanned and image-based files are processed with OCR automatically, so you can search and ask questions about their text.
What to Ask
Sample questions
These are examples to get you started — you can ask anything about your document.
Capabilities
What LearnByAi does
Each capability is grounded in your document — no guessing, no hallucination.
Conceptual Q&A
- ✓Ask what a concept means or what the author intends by a specific term
- ✓Answers are drawn from the exact section of your textbook or paper, not a generic definition
- ✓Helps you understand material in context rather than in isolation
Chapter & Topic Summarization
- ✓Request a concise summary of any chapter, section, or paper
- ✓Ideal for quickly reviewing before an exam or building an outline for an essay
- ✓Summaries stay grounded in your actual course material
Citation & Reference Lookup
- ✓Ask which studies the author cites to support a specific argument
- ✓Trace a statistic or claim back to its original source within the document
- ✓Useful for literature reviews and verifying claims before citing them yourself
Multi-Paper Research Synthesis
- ✓Upload multiple papers on the same topic and ask what they agree or disagree on
- ✓Useful for building a literature review without reading each paper cover to cover
- ✓Surfaces methodology differences across studies automatically
Quiz & Practice Question Generation
- ✓Ask LearnByAi to generate practice questions from a chapter or set of notes
- ✓Creates a ready-to-use study quiz based on your actual course materials
- ✓Helps test recall before generating the answer key from the same source
See It in Action
A real conversation, not a screenshot
This is the kind of answer you get within seconds of uploading your document.
Here's a summary and a few questions based on the chapter you uploaded:
Chapter Summary
- •The chapter argues that supply shocks affect short-run prices more than long-run equilibrium
- •Three historical case studies are used to support this, including the 1973 oil crisis
Quiz Questions
- •1. What distinguishes a short-run supply shock from a long-run one, according to this chapter?
- •2. Which historical event does the author use as the primary case study?
- •3. What does the chapter conclude about price elasticity during a shock?
💡 Follow-up suggestion: Ask "give me the answer key for these three questions" to check your own responses.
Source: Chapter 5, pages 112-128 of your uploaded document.
Process
From upload to answer in seconds
Upload
PDF, Office file, text, or scanned/image document
Extract
Text chunked & indexed
Ask
Plain-language question
Retrieve
RAG finds relevant passages
Answer
Grounded, cited response
Who Uses This
Built for professionals who read a lot of documents
University Students
Skip the index and table of contents. Ask your textbook anything directly and get an answer grounded in the actual text.
Graduate Researchers & Thesis Writers
Understand the methodology, findings, and limitations of academic papers quickly during a literature review.
High School Students
Chat with set texts, revision guides, and past papers just as effectively as graduate researchers.
Self-Learners & Online Course Takers
Turn course PDFs, eBooks, and transcripts into interactive study sessions that respond to specific questions.
Language Learners
Upload documents in a language you're learning and ask comprehension questions to test understanding.
Study Groups & Tutors
Generate quiz questions and summaries from shared course material to structure a group study session.
Security & Privacy
Your documents never leave your session
We built LearnByAi so that privacy is a structural guarantee, not a setting.
Session-isolated processing
Your document is only accessible within your current session. No other user can see it.
Not used for AI training
Your files and conversations are never used to train any AI model.
Secure cloud storage
Files are stored via Cloudinary with strict access controls. Not stored on-device.
Automatic cleanup
Sessions and their associated data are cleaned up automatically when the session ends.
No plain-text storage
Vector embeddings — not raw document text — are what's indexed for AI retrieval.
No data sold, ever
We do not share, sell, or transfer your documents to any third party.
FAQ
Common questions
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