Using the AI PDF functions can make the document more understandable. You can rewrite complicated passages, find important information or summarize long passages. Also, you can extract knowledge from various sources with your own workspace. This allows you to find the necessary answer from a large amount of data. This is particularly useful when you need to understand a large collection of documents. The different parts of the topic can be explained in textbooks, presentation slides, and research articles. Wondershare PDFelement 13’s AI Space brings these materials together so that you can compare your findings and refer to the original text including the solutions.

Organizing Around a Topic

Begin with a course, assignment, or research question. Take an assignment on online learning as an example you can make a Space with the assigned readings, lecture slides and your notes. You can get materials from local files, pasted text, or PDFelement Cloud. 

In addition to PDFs, Space also allows you to upload Word documents, presentations, spreadsheets, TXT files and images and they can all be previewed in PDF form.

Now you can start asking questions about the topic.

When a Question Covers Several Documents

If you’re examining papers or tuition materials about virtual learning environments for example, one question could be “how do the sources discuss the impact of internet learning on knowledge, including the participants, findings and limitations of each study?”

With AI, you are able to ask questions about your selected documents and compare the explanations (which you would have to search for yourself), while you can ask follow-up questions to clarify reasons or focus only on two articles to compare. Therefore, a clear starting point for further reading is given.

Keep the Evidence Within Reach

Anyway, those readable answers should be checked again. In AI Space, all source references link directly to the relevant page of the article and relevant sections are marked, which helps you find the right text quickly. 

If an answer claims to demonstrate the effectiveness of an individual learning method, check the original study to find out what “effective” actually means better test scores, increased participation rate or just the students’ own impressions make a difference in how this result can be applied.

Page numbers make checking easier but they don’t ensure that you’ve remembered all of the limitations of your source. Check the context before quoting it. 

After Reading Comes Review

Quiz can help you see what you’ve forgotten. PDFelement can make a quiz based on the content you’ve selected. You can enter a topic, how many questions and level of question. Flashcards will help you quiz yourself in short spurts.

Any source that is suitable for listening to while offline, you can also just send it there and turn it into a two-person podcast using AI. Writing requires some kind of pre-work. 

You could sketch your main ideas and how they’re related on a mind map, or you could even grab an AI-generated outline as a starting point. Your choice is up to you, but it’s up to your planned next move.

Why the PDF Tools Still Matter

You’re not done once you find answers. Your supplier contract may still require your comments and rewording. You may want to extract figures from your PDF report to analyze in Excel. Or perhaps you need to convert your scanned project records into search-friendly text before they can be reviewed. 

PDFelement 13 has AI Space plus a full suite of tools to take on those follow-up tasks. OCR makes scanned documents searchable and easily edited. Comments and annotations allow you to easily make notes and suggestions. Editing tools help you make revisions. Conversion and batch tools help get documents ready for reuse. Redaction, password protection and digital signing tools let you securely share and get approval on your documents.

That means PDFelement doesn’t simply edit files, but provides the AI-powered context to make those edits. AI Space allows you to work with multiple files, reference other sources, then edit or organize your files without having to open another app. It can be useful when you need to translate knowledge about a document into an action, decision or finished product to give to someone else.

Before You Try It

Note that space materials are uploaded to PDFelement Cloud, so make sure your documents are OK for cloud processing. Note that some AI actions use credits and your available allowances and limits are dependent upon the current product offering and your account. 

Try it with something you’re already going to have to do anyway, such as a revision of the chapter, paper-term optimization or a writing template for a comprehensive overview. How easy can you handle this information, check it against the original source and then avoid another task?

FAQ

How to Create Your First Study Space in PDFelement

Open PDFelement, go to the Space tab and create a new workspace. Name the workspace after your course or research subject and then upload any files that you would like to use. With your files added, you can then ask the AI about the content of those files and use the files to generate study notes such as quizzes, flashcards, audio lectures, mind maps and reports.

How Can PDFelement Space Make Studying Easier?

With PDFelement Space, students can manage all their study materials in one location. They can query across multiple files, browse cited paragraphs for further understanding, create flashcards or quizzes from important notes, generate a podcast with an AI assistant, create a concept map or write a summary of their research in a report for class.

Which AI Study Tool Is Worth Using in College?

All students from PDFElement Space can collect all PDFs and documents from courses, Seminars, Word docs, images, text files and YouTube video scripts in one large view. Students can study them through Q&A, fact check the sources mentioned in their answers and generate study tools like quizzes, flashcards, podcast conversations, visual concept maps and reports. 

Another alternative is Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, which provides AI functionality for PDFs. Your decision should be based on your file types, required features, budget and whether or not it’s critical to trace back to source material.