A quiz generator from PDF, typed or scanned
Upload a slide deck, a reader or a scanned chapter, and Studrix turns the PDF into a quiz, whether the text is selectable or the pages are scanned images.
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Open your revision folder and it is mostly PDFs: a lecture deck your teacher exported straight from a slideshow, a scanned chapter from a book the library will not let you borrow twice, a reading list article you saved for later. Most tools that promise to quiz you handle exactly one of those well and choke on the rest.
Studrix works as a quiz generator from PDF files in any of those states. A text-based PDF gets read directly. A scanned or photographed PDF goes through text recognition first. Either way, the questions come from the actual content, with an explanation attached to each one.
That matters most for the files that are usually hardest to study from: a forty-slide deck with more bullet points than full sentences, or a scanned chapter from a book your school doesn't sell as an ebook.
What you need to know
- Text-based PDFs, such as a typed reading, article or reader
- Scanned or photographed PDFs, read through built-in text recognition
- Lecture slide decks exported to PDF, bullet points included
- Long documents, split into a quiz per chapter or section
- Multiple-choice and short-answer questions generated from the PDF content
- An explanation attached to every answer, correct or not
- Support for PDFs used at GCSE, A-level, AP, IB and university level
Example questions
Studrix generates questions like these from your own material. Click a question to reveal the answer.
1 A PDF sentence says the mitochondrion is the site of aerobic respiration. What question could Studrix generate from it?
2 A scanned chapter describes the causes of the French Revolution across several photographed pages. Can one quiz cover all of them together?
3 A lecture slide reads only 'Supply and demand, price set where they meet.' What kind of question comes from a slide like that?
4 What happens when a slide has almost no text, just three bullet points?
How it works
Upload your PDF
Drop in a text-based PDF, a slide deck, or a scanned chapter. Studrix works out which type it is and reads it accordingly.
A quiz comes back from the content
Well under a minute later you have a quiz with multiple-choice and short-answer questions drawn from the actual text, each with its own explanation.
Practise, then split long PDFs if needed
Take the quiz, read the explanations, and for a long document generate one quiz per chapter so you can focus on a single section at a time.
Tips for studying this subject
Check a scan is legible before you upload it
Text recognition depends on a clear, well-lit scan or photo. A blurry or heavily skewed page can get a line of text wrong, so a quick check now saves a re-upload later.
Split a long PDF into sections
A two-hundred-page reader produces a sharper quiz per chapter than one giant quiz covering everything at once. Upload a chapter at a time if your file spans more than one topic.
Treat a sparse slide as a starting point
Three bullet points on a slide often stand in for ten minutes of spoken explanation in the actual lecture. Add your own notes to the file, or upload a fuller reading alongside it, for richer questions.
Rerun the quiz on just what you missed
After your first attempt, generate a shorter follow-up quiz on only the sections that gave you trouble, rather than repeating the whole document.
Frequently asked questions
Does a quiz generator from PDF work on scanned files, or only ones with selectable text?
Both. A text-based PDF is read directly. A scanned or photographed PDF is processed with text recognition first, so a photographed chapter behaves the same as a typed one once it's uploaded.
Can I upload a slide deck exported as a PDF?
You can, and the AI reads the text on each slide, including sparse bullet points, though a slide deck with very little text on it will produce fewer questions than a full reading would.
What happens with a very long PDF, like a whole textbook?
You can upload the full document. For anything that long it usually works better to generate one quiz per chapter, so each quiz stays focused instead of mixing every topic together.
Does turning a PDF into a quiz cost anything?
Not to start. Free credits land in your account as soon as you sign up, enough to try it on a real PDF without entering payment details.
Turn your PDF into a quiz
Upload it, typed or scanned, and see what questions come back. It's free to try and no card is required.
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