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Best PDF AI tools

Reading, generating and extracting text and tables from PDF documents. The 13 highest-ranked of the 13 apps tagged PDF in the Onei AI catalogue.

Everything tagged PDF: apps, skills and MCP servers

  1. Vectify AI

    A vectorless RAG engine that builds a tree index of long PDFs and lets an LLM reason its way to the right section, with page-level citations.

    Also: Document Processing, RAG · Editor's pick

  2. Scanfile Team

    Translate PDF, EPUB, PowerPoint and subtitle files online, with format-specific previews and pay-as-you-go credits.

  3. Damon Berger

    MarkAny converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, EPUB, and images to Markdown, and exports Markdown to other formats.

    Also: OCR

  4. Readwise

    Read-it-later app for articles, PDFs, EPUBs, newsletters, RSS and YouTube, with highlighting, AI chat and sync to Readwise reviews.

    Also: Text-to-Speech

  5. OCR for STEM documents: converts screenshots, handwriting and PDFs into LaTeX, Markdown and Word with equations and tables intact.

    Also: Document Processing, OCR

  6. Construction takeoffs, estimates and invoices in one browser workflow — upload the PDF plans, measure on scale, and let Onyx AI draft the numbers.

    Also: Document Processing

  7. Turns notes, PDFs, URLs or a one-line prompt into a designed, watermark-free slide deck you can export to PPTX.

    Also: Document Processing

  8. An AI research assistant over 280 million papers — chat with PDFs, run literature reviews, and decode dense text.

  9. ETL for unstructured data — turn PDFs, slides, emails, and images into clean, AI-ready structured output.

    Also: Document Processing, OCR, RAG

  10. Document parsing and retrieval built for agents — turn messy PDFs into structured, queryable context.

    Also: Document Processing, RAG

  11. Listen to anything — documents, articles, PDFs, and email — in natural voices, at up to several times normal speed.

    Also: Text-to-Speech

  12. ElevenLabs

    ElevenLabs' reader app: turns PDFs, ePubs, articles and its own audiobook catalogue into speech using 1,000+ voices across 30+ languages.

    Also: Text-to-Speech

  13. Handwriting-first notes, PDF annotation, whiteboards and text documents in one app, with AI transcription, summarisation and meeting notes layered on top.

How this list is ranked

Ranked by editorial weight (0–100), plus 5 points per bookmark up to 10, plus or minus up to 20 for the average review rating; ties go to featured apps, then the most recently updated. Discontinued apps are never ranked.

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