Review of ChatPDF, ChatDOC and docRxiv
Now there is a completely new way to chat with your PDF files. Use AI to retrieve information from your documents almost instantly. Learn how!
Joseph Benyair
June 7, 2023
Now there is a completely new way to chat with your PDF files. Use AI to retrieve information from your documents almost instantly. Learn how!
Joseph Benyair
June 7, 2023
If you're tired of sifting through pages and pages of PDFs to learn new information, then you might want to try using AI tools that can summarize the content for you and present it in a conversational format. Two such tools that are particularly popular and useful for this purpose are ChatPDF and ChatDOC but there are some alternatives that can provide a better solution.
In this article, we will explore how to use these two tools to summarize your PDFs and compare their respective capabilities, and add a third alternative to the mix.
ChatPDF 
is an AI chatbot that summarizes any PDF and chats with you using it as a data source. If you are a student and want to enhance your learning experience, ChatPDF is a tool you must have on hand. If you are an employee or business owner and want to quickly review your financial reports and legal contracts, ChatPDF will streamline your workload.
To use ChatPDF, you can upload PDFs on your device and get their summarized versions. Also, if you want to import your PDFs from your Google Drive or other cloud systems, you can paste their link.
On ChatPDF you can chat with your PDFs and ask any question to the chatbot. The software will generate output for you by using your PDFs as a data source. For example, you can request summaries of your financial reports or get a list of expenses for a particular month. Since ChatPDF keeps the PDFs you uploaded in its memory, you can review them whenever you want.
You can export your conversations with ChatPDF and share the link. ChatPDF is a good choice if you want to share information from PDFs with your friends.
ChatPDF provides daily 50 question credits and 3 PDF upload credits for up to 120 pages for users. If you are using the free version of ChatPDF, you can upload a maximum of 10MB of PDF. ChatPDF offers a plan called "Plus" where you must pay $5 per month. This plan allows you to upload up to 2000 pages of PDFs and credit of 1000 questions per day. You can also upload 50 PDFs up to 32MB per day.
ChatDoc can be used to either chat with your PDFs and documents or to summarize your PDFs. ChatDOC is an AI chatbot that uses your written documents as data. Although ChatDOC currently works with GPT-3.5, it cannot analyse any visual content, but it is a useful tool for summarizing your written documents.
With ChatDOC, you have the option to either upload any PDF directly or simply paste its link. Once you have uploaded the PDF, you can start a conversation with it and receive a summarized version of its content. This makes it easy and efficient to interact with your PDFs and acquire the information you need in a format that is both concise and conversational.
ChatDOC offers its users the option to create collections. Using this option, you can group the PDFs you have uploaded with the titles you want and enable the software to use your collections as a data source.
ChatDOC offers its users to upload 2 files per day, up to 20 pages and 36MB. Also, if you use ChatDOC for free, you can ask 20 questions daily. If you want to upload more files and ask questions, you must purchase the Pro plan, which is $5.99 per month. The Pro plan allows you to upload 30 files up to 500 pages per day. You can also ask 300 questions per day to your PDFs with the Pro plan.
docRxiv can ne used as a full featured file system online that allows you to either chat with your PDFs and documents or to summarize your PDFs, as well as perform content search. docRxiv is also an AI chatbot that uses your written documents as data. unlike the previous two sites, docRxiv can analyse all your visual content, and can perform pretty advanced OCR on all the scanned content as well.
You can use docRxiv to chat or search all the files you uploaded. docRxiv also allows you to pass a link to your document and also integrated with dropbox to import documents.
docRxiv hierarchical file system is an intuitive structure of folders and files, and it also offers its users the option to search or chat on individual files or folders or the entire file system.
docRxiv offers its users to upload files up to 200MB total and up to 14MB per file. Also, if you use docRxiv for free, you can ask 20 questions weekly. If you want to upload additional files and questions per week, you must purchase the basic or advanced plans, which is $5 or $10 per month respectively. The Basic plan allows you to upload 30 files up to 500MB total. You can also ask 60 questions per week to your PDFs with the Basic plan.
ChatPDF and ChatDOC both provide a quick solution for PDF file summarization and questions. However, both ChatPDF and ChatDOC only allow you to work with basic PDFs in a very limited way. If you need to work with more file types, and need to work with scanned PDFs, docRxiv is the way to go. In addition, ChatPDF and ChatDOC only have the GPT-3.5 language model, while docRxiv uses advanced language models such as GPT-4 and LLAMA. In conclusion, docRxiv is a better option than the other two as it comes with a variety of features and benefits.