Read research PDFs with AI: translate pages, ask questions, explain selections, and keep highlights and notes beside the source.
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About Explixit - AI PDF Reader | Translation | Research Assistant
Explixit: AI PDF Reader for Research Papers
📣 Read, translate, and ask questions to understand complex papers faster.
Explixit is an AI PDF reader for Chrome built for research. Stop switching between your PDF, translation tools, search engines, and note-taking apps. Translate, ask, explain, and annotate while keeping the original paper at the center of your workspace.
🌐 Read the Translation Beside the Original
Continuous Translation: Translate the current page or follow a continuous page-by-page translation.
Side-by-Side View: Keep the original PDF visible while checking terminology, formulas, and context.
Wide Compatibility: Open papers from arXiv, other websites, and permitted local files.
🧠 Understand Difficult Content with AI
Grounded Answers: Ask questions and receive answers grounded in the current paper.
Contextual Explanations: Select text, formulas, charts, tables, or figures for contextual AI explanations.
Formula Support: View mathematical answers as clear, readable formulas.
Key Highlights: Automatically surface important methods, contributions, and results.
✍️ Keep Reading and Notes Together
In-Context Annotations: Add highlights, comments, and private notes.
Seamless Workflow: Capture ideas without leaving the document.
Flexible Control: Turn Explixit off for any PDF and return to Chrome’s native reader at any time.
🔒 Privacy and Access
Privacy: Explixit does not use user data for advertising. When you start a document AI feature, the current PDF or selected content is sent through the disclosed AI processing path. Please review the privacy policy and AI processing disclosure before use.
Access & Accounts: An Explixit account is required. Sign in with an email and password or use Google sign-in. Free access is subject to the published weekly limits, while Pro capabilities are managed through the Explixit website. Local PDFs require Chrome’s file URL access to be enabled by the user.
💡 From opening a paper to truly understanding it, Explixit keeps translation, insight, and thought connected to the original document.