Extract key information from research papers with our AI summarizer.
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Read the key points of a paper in seconds with confidence that everything you read comes from the original text.
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Clutter free flashcards help you skim or diver deeper into the details and quickly jump between sections.
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Highlighted key terms and findings. Let evidence-based statements guide you through the full text with confidence.
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Scholarcy’s AI summarization tool is designed to generate accurate, reliable article summaries.
Our summarizer tool is trained to identify key terms, claims, and findings in academic papers. These insights are turned into digestible Summary Flashcards.
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The knowledge extraction and summarization methods we use focus on accuracy. This ensures what you read is factually correct, and can always be traced back to the original source.
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Get unlimited summaries, advanced research and analysis features, and your own personalised collection with Scholarcy Library!
With Scholarcy Library you can import unlimited documents and generate summaries for all your course materials or collection of research papers.
Scholarcy Library offers additional features including access to millions of academic research papers, customizable summaries, direct import from Zotero and more.
Scholarcy lets you build and organise your summaries into a handy library that you can access from anywhere. Export from a range of options, including one-click bibliographies and even a literature matrix.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I use Scholarcy?
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What if I’m having issues importing files?
Scholarcy needs accessible text to be able to process the article into flashcards. If you are encountering issues when importing to Scholarcy, there may be a couple of reasons:
The PDF file contains no extractable text. We don't currently support scanned PDFs - you'll need to run it through some OCR software first.
The web URL is closed access or behind a paywall. If the article is not open-access, try downloading the PDF from the site, then upload the PDF into your Scholarcy Library.
The file is too large or too complex. This can happen with PDFs containing many images, or if you try to upload an entire book. For best results, break large files into smaller PDFs, eg. split a book into individual chapters and upload each one.
Can Scholarcy generate a plain language summary of the article?
The Scholarcy Synopsis provides a narrative overview of the article you have imported in accessible and easy to understand language. Scholarcy’s Enhanced Summary also provides a more detailed overview of your paper, which you can adjust to use a reading style that suits you.
Can Scholarcy process any size document?
The machine learning algorithms which Scholarcy is built upon were trained to work best on academic articles and individual book chapters, rather than entire textbooks. If you have a 400 page textbook, and a 400 word summary, you essentially get 1 word per page! It is also common for textbooks to have multiple topics throughout, separated by chapters. Therefore, it’s best to split textbooks down into the individual chapters, to get an accurate summary of each chapter.
How do I change the summary to get better results?
You can change the Scholarcy Summary to a different reading style by clicking on Enhance, and then selecting the style that best suits you. You can choose between School level, General reader, Bulleted list, Undergrad level, One liner, and Researcher. You can also select Specific topics, and then choose up to 5 keywords to customize your summary to.
What if I upload a paywalled article to Scholarcy, is it violating copyright laws?
As long as you have legitimate access to a paywalled article, you can upload it to Scholarcy without violating copyright laws. Scholarcy is a summarization and article management tool, not a distribution service.
Scholarcy does not store the PDF of the article after generating the flashcards. Scholarcy only extracts the key information from the paper in the form of the interactive flashcard. This is considered ‘transformative use’ under US copyright law.