The AskYourPDF Research Assistant helps users streamline research tasks by enabling them to interact with documents, generate content with citations, and manage references. It's designed to assist researchers, writers, and students in efficiently gathering information and producing well-referenced academic work.
Key Features
- Chat with multiple files to extract information.
- Generate articles with properly formatted citations.
- Analyze text and automatically generate references.
- Create and interact with a knowledge base of uploaded files.
- Fetch documents from Zotero.
AI Essay Writer with References
This feature allows users to generate essays on specific topics with relevant academic citations.
What to Ask:
- "Can you write an essay on [specific topic] and include relevant references?"
- Example: "Can you write an essay on the impacts of artificial intelligence in healthcare and include relevant references?"
How It Works:
- The AI writes an essay on the specified topic.
- It uses a reference finder API to locate relevant academic papers.
- In-text citations in APA format are added within the essay.
- A list of all used references in APA format, with clickable links, is provided at the end of the essay.
AI References and Citation Tool
This feature helps users add references and citations to existing text.
What to Ask:
- "Can you add references and citations to this text: [provide text]?"
- Example: "Can you add references and citations to this text about the evolution of machine learning algorithms?"
How It Works:
- The AI analyzes the provided text to identify parts that require citations.
- It generates keyword combinations relevant to the text.
- Appropriate references are found, and in-text citations in APA format are added to the text.
- A list of used references in APA format, with clickable links, is compiled.
Chat with PDF
This feature enables users to extract information from PDF documents and interact with them in a conversational manner.
What to Ask:
- "Can you extract information from this PDF [provide PDF link or document ID]?"
- "What are the latest papers on [specific topic or category]?"
- "Can you fetch documents from my Zotero account?"
How It Works:
- The AI downloads the PDF from a provided link or retrieves it using a document ID, then extracts the requested information.
- The AI fetches the latest papers from a specified category using Arxiv categories.
- If a Zotero account is linked, the AI can fetch documents and collections from it.
