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Scholarcy

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AI-powered research summarizer that turns complex papers into interactive flashcards

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Converts academic papers into structured interactive flashcard summariesAI-powered Spotlight feature jumps straight to key findings and conceptsSeamless import from Zotero, Google Drive, PDFs, and YouTubeExportable summaries to citation managers, Excel, Word, and PKMS toolsAdjustable summary depth from a single sentence to researcher-level overview
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Scholarcy is a SaaS platform with a public API (governed by separate API Terms of Service) that processes academic documents through NLP and AI pipelines to extract structured metadata, key findings, figures, tables, and references. It supports ingestion from multiple sources including direct file upload (PDF, Word), cloud storage (Google Drive, Zotero library sync), and web content (browser extension). The platform outputs structured flashcard data exportable in formats compatible with reference managers (e.g., BibTeX/Word bibliography generation), spreadsheet tools (Excel), and Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS). Browser extensions enable on-the-fly summarization while browsing research online.

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