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AI · July 19, 2022

Scholarcy

Generate AI summaries for research papers and articles

Scholarcy launched on July 19, 2022 with 80 votes, #419 of 2,916 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

Scholarcy uses ML and AI to read and condense academic papers into referenced summaries. Upload your PDFs to Scholarcy or give Scholarcy the public URL of a PDF and it will read the paper, break it down into readable chunks, and summarize it automatically.

Summarize anything, understand complex research, and organise your knowledge with Scholarcy.

“It would normally take me 15mins – 1 hour to skim read the article but with Scholarcy I can do that in 5 minutes.” So, you have texts coming at you from every angle and need to articulate your understanding of them tomorrow? We’ve been there… You can summarize videos too! Scholarcy converts long complex texts into interactive summary flashcards, which highlight key information. Import any file, from anywhere. Whether you're browsing articles online, have a chapter downloaded, or a folder of PDFs and Word docs. Change the summary to match your reading style with our Enhance feature. Choose from a single sentence to a researcher level overview. We’ll take you straight to the important…from scholarcy.com

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