AskYourPDF vs Paperlayer

AskYourPDF lets users ask questions about documents, get summaries, embed an AI agent on a website, and fill PDF forms with supplied data. Document chat works with uploaded PDFs or text documents; the website agent can draw on web pages and PDF, TXT, PPT, PPTX, EPUB, and RTF files. The site says that agent answers only from the provided sources. To complete a form, users pair a fillable or non-fillable PDF with data from another PDF, a text file, or pasted content. The embedded agent works with plain HTML, WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, React, Vue, and Next.js. AskYourPDF also offers a Chrome extension and Zotero and ChatGPT plugins. Its API supports PDF data extraction, document chatbots, searching and navigating PDF contents, and conversations across multiple documents. The Free plan allows one document per day, 50 questions per day, and three conversations per day, with 100 pages per document and a 15MB upload cap. Premium is listed at $11.99 a year, billed per month and billed yearly.

Paperlayer is a web-based AI reading layer for research papers, pairing summaries and contextual margin notes with evidence in the original PDF. You can find public arXiv papers by title or author, enter an arXiv ID or paste an arXiv link. Summaries cover the paper’s problem, method, results and caveats, while highlights mark claims, methods, results, problems and caveats with adjustable density. Margin notes explain terms, equations and figures beside the text. Summaries and notes support Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French and German, and J and K keys navigate through a paper. Paper chat is marked “Soon.” The public demo covers public arXiv papers only and accepts no private or unpublished uploads. Paperlayer says live processing sends paper and request content to OpenAI over encryption without intentionally including account, cookie or anonymous identifiers.