Image-based PDF AI Summarization with OCR and AI-Powered Tools
AI PDF Summarization for Image-Based PDFs
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As a humanities student, I spent countless hours wrestling with massive PDFs filled with dense texts and images—essential reading for my exams. But when I turned to AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini for help, they left me hanging. Turns out, these AI whizzes couldn’t handle the images buried in my documents. So, instead of getting a quick summary, I got a workout scrolling through endless pages.
That’s when it hit me: why not create a tool that actually gets what’s inside those images? And just like that, EzSum was born—because nobody’s got time to manually summarize a novel’s worth of PDF pages!
How does it work?
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Check your Package and PDF
To create summaries from image-based PDFs, you must first make sure that you have at least the Essential Package active and that the pertinent PDF to be summarised is entirely image-based, i.e. it has no text at all.
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Upload your PDF
Next, you will need to upload the relevant PDF to our website. It will then be uploaded to our database and it will be detected if it contains text (THE PDF MUST NOT CONTAIN ANY TEXT). If the PDF contains a minimum of text, it will immediately be considered as text-based and the content of its images will not be extracted.
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Optical Character Recognition
Subsequently, using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine, we recognise the printed text from the images. These may very well be scanned documents, photographs, digital images or even handwritten notes. Our OCR engine can handle a wide range of image types and formats, including greyscale, colour and even some types of distorted or noisy images. It also supports a wide range of languages, making it suitable for multilingual documents.
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Run Summarizer
Finally, just start summarising. Our AI will already have 100% of the text of the images extracted from your PDF and, once the order is given, instead of having to transcribe your text yourself like a copyist monk from the monastery of Vivarium, you can abandon this medieval profession and EzSum will take care of writing your summaries like a good amanuensis.
Get the only AI summariser capable of extracting text from large PDFs
EzSum´s tools offer much more than just summary tools. They were designed by students for students, so we know exactly what you need.
Engineered prompts: Our AI extracts the most relevant information through advanced prompt engineering.
Fast and efficient OCR: Our OCR is the fastest and most effective in the market, ensuring accurate text extraction.
Reliable AI accuracy: We maintain high accuracy levels, delivering precise summaries and text extractions.
FAQs about the processing of image-based PDFs
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