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Scholarcy

Scholarcy reads PDFs and web articles, extracts key points, figures, and references, and turns them into summary cards.

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Pricing: Free trial + paid plans API: Yes Rating: 4.20 Updated: 2 days ago
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Where Scholarcy shines

Designed for students and researchers, Scholarcy accelerates literature reviews by auto-extracting abstracts, methods, findings, and references. You can export highlights to spreadsheets or reference managers.

Summary cards

Key sections (aims, methods, results) auto-extracted for quick scanning.

Reference mining

Pulls cited works and links to sources where available.

Exports

Send highlights to spreadsheets or reference managers.

AI-powered article summarization

Scholarcy is designed to summarize academic papers into concise, digestible briefs. It highlights key points, figures, and references, making it faster to scan large volumes of research. For students and researchers pressed for time, it acts as a personal assistant that reduces hours of reading into minutes. Scholarcy works across multiple formats including PDFs and Word documents, producing structured summaries that can be exported into reference managers.

Who benefits most

Students, especially undergraduates and master’s candidates, benefit by quickly grasping paper content. Researchers conducting reviews use it to triage large sets of papers. Professionals outside academia, such as journalists and policy analysts, also use it to extract key insights from technical research. It is a bridge between dense scholarly language and actionable takeaways.

Critical perspective

Scholarcy is excellent for efficiency but cannot replace deep reading or critical evaluation. Summaries may miss subtle arguments, and users must be careful not to rely solely on compressed versions. Still, as an entry point to large volumes of literature, it dramatically improves productivity and makes academic research more approachable.

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