📄 PDF → Flashcards

Turn any PDF into flashcards in minutes

Upload a PDF — a textbook chapter, lecture slides, class notes, a research paper — and StudyTab’s AI reads it and generates flashcards you review with spaced repetition. No retyping, and every card stays linked to the page it came from.

Making cards from a PDF by hand is the worst part of studying

Retyping is the bottleneck

A 40-page chapter is an evening of copy-paste before you’ve learned a thing. Most people quit before the deck is built.

A highlighted PDF is not recall

Highlighting feels like progress, but re-reading a marked-up PDF is the weakest way to remember it. You need to be tested, not shown.

Cards drift from their source

Once a fact is typed into a separate app, you lose the trail back to the page — so you can’t check context when a card is ambiguous.

From PDF to scheduled flashcards

Upload the PDF

Drag in any PDF — digital or scanned. StudyTab OCRs image-only and handwritten PDFs so even photographed pages become text.

Let AI generate the cards

Pick a chapter or section and AI produces MCQ, cloze and Q&A cards — plus picture quizzes from the figures. Edit anything; the cards are yours.

Review on an FSRS schedule

Every card is scheduled with FSRS so it resurfaces right before you’d forget — minutes a day instead of marathon re-reading.

Ask the PDF

Stuck on a card? The AI tutor answers from your own uploaded pages, with a citation that jumps to the exact spot.

Built for studying from PDFs

Scanned & handwritten PDFs

Built-in OCR turns image-only pages into cards — lecture scans and photographed notebooks included.

Figures become picture quizzes

Diagrams in the PDF become label-the-image cards — some of the easiest marks to bank.

Citations jump to the page

Every AI answer and card can link back to the source page, so nothing floats free of its context.

10 card types

MCQ, cloze, true/false, ordering, audio and more — match the card to how the material is tested.

Anki import & export

Bring existing .apkg decks in with history intact, and export back out whenever you like.

PDF to flashcards questions, answered

How does StudyTab turn a PDF into flashcards?
Upload the PDF, pick the section you want, and AI reads the text (and figures) to generate flashcards — MCQ, cloze, Q&A and picture quizzes. You review and edit before they go into your deck.
Does it work on scanned or handwritten PDFs?
Yes — built-in OCR converts image-only and handwritten PDFs into text first, so photographed pages and scanned notes become cards just like digital PDFs.
Can I control what becomes a card?
Yes. Generate by chapter or section, choose card types, and edit, merge or delete any card before studying. Nothing is locked — the deck is yours.
What card types can it make from a PDF?
Ten built-in types, including NEET/JEE-style MCQs, cloze deletions with LaTeX for formulas, and picture quizzes generated from diagrams in the file.
Is it free?
Yes — free to start, with notes, flashcards and FSRS reviews included. Pro (₹199/month) adds the knowledge graph and a much larger AI allowance for heavy generation.

Drop in a PDF, get your first deck

Upload one chapter and watch AI build a reviewable deck in minutes. Free to start, no card required.