Guides to asking questions about your documents
How Docamend reads PDFs, scans, Word and text files, what each answer mode is for, and the limits worth knowing before you rely on an answer. For document-specific checklists, see the blog.
Ask questions about a document
- Chat with a PDF, then check the answer on the pageUpload a PDF, ask questions in plain English and get answers with the exact quote highlighted on its page, so you can verify them in seconds.
- PDF answers that show their sourceEvery Docamend answer quotes the passage it relies on and highlights it on the page. See how quoted, page-level citations make AI answers checkable.
- A research assistant that reads the whole reportFor students and professionals reading long reports: ask multi-part questions, compare sections and follow cross-references, with quotes for every point.
- Summarize a long document, or only the pages you needSummarize a whole document or a page range. See how Docamend reads long PDFs section by section, what it costs, and where summaries have limits.
- Fact-check the claims in a documentFind the checkable claims in a report or article and compare them with outside web sources, with a verdict and the sources for each claim.
File types
- Ask questions about a scanned PDFScanned PDFs have no text layer. Docamend reads scanned pages with OCR, much of it in your own browser, so you can ask questions and see quotes.
- Ask questions about a Word documentUpload a .docx or .doc file and ask questions about it. Docamend converts it to pages so every answer points to the exact passage it came from.
- Ask questions about text, Markdown, RTF and ODT filesNotes, exports and drafts often live in plain text, Markdown, RTF or ODT. Upload them to Docamend and ask questions with quoted, checkable answers.
Everyday documents
- Understand your rental agreement clause by clauseFind the deposit, notice period, rent increase and repair clauses in your lease. Ask in plain English and see the exact clause each answer comes from.
- Ask your insurance policy what it actually saysAsk what your policy covers, excludes and makes you wait for. Docamend answers from the policy wording and shows the clause, so you can check it.
Trust and privacy
- How Docamend answers questions about your documentsWhat happens when you upload a document and ask a question: text extraction, OCR, search, Fast, Quality and Max answers, and quote checking.
- How Docamend handles the documents you uploadWhat happens to a document you upload to Docamend: who processes it, what is sent to the AI model, training, deletion and the limits to know.