PDF files
Ask your PDF anything, or turn its tables into Excel.
Drop a PDF in Jean and ask in your own words: what it commits you to, the dates and amounts it sets, a summary for someone who won’t read it. Its tables come back as a workbook, its text as a Word document, in your language if you like. Nothing to install.
Open Jean, then drop a PDFSee how it went
There is no sample PDF: bring one of yours, one that isn’t confidential to start with, and drop it in the box.
- Free and open source
- Nothing to install
- Nothing is sent to Jean
One task, step by step.
A bank statement as a PDF, made a workbook: what Jean read, what it worked out, and the files it made.
- You ask
March statement.pdfPut every transaction of this statement in an Excel workbook, one row each, with the money in and out added up. Check the totals against the statement’s.
- Jean reads
- The statement’s text, page by page
- Its table of transactions, and its own totals
- Jean works it out
- Rebuilt each row: its date, its label, the money in or out
- Added them up with a program, on its own walled-off computer
- Compared those totals with the statement’s
- You get
A workbook: the transactions on one sheet, the totals on another, the sums as formulas.
March statement.xlsx - You ask for another file
And a short note for my accountant, in Word, with anything unusual.
- Jean makes it
A Word document with the month’s totals and what stood out, as a card under the answer, to change and send.
Note for the accountant.docx
Or ask your own
- Summarise this report in ten lines, for someone who won’t read it.
- What does this contract commit me to? Dates and amounts first.
- Translate it into English, as a Word document.
- Compare these two versions: what changed?
What goes in. What comes out.
A PDF with text in it, short or long, in most languages. Then ask for the result in the form you need.
In
- Its text, page by page, headings and all
- Long documents
- Read a part at a time, the pages a question needs found by search
- Several at once
- To compare, or to read together
- A photo of a page
- For an AI that sees pictures, when a PDF is only a scan
Out
- An answer
- A summary, the dates and amounts, short or long, in your language
- An Excel workbook
- Its tables as sheets, the sums as formulas
- A Word document
- A summary, a letter or a translation, to change and send
- A table as CSV
- From any answer, to open in Excel
Totals worked out, not guessed.
Copying figures by hand is where mistakes creep in. Jean reads them from the PDF and has them added up.
Read from its text
Figures come from the PDF’s own text, as it was written, not from a picture of it.
Added up by a program
Totals and averages are calculated on a computer inside this tab, walled off from your own machine. The first time, Jean asks before turning it on.
Every step in view
Each step shows as it runs. Open one to see what it was given and what came back.
Where your PDF goes.
There is no Jean server. What changes is the AI that answers, and you choose it.
Kept on this device
Your files and your tasks are kept in this browser, encrypted. Nothing reaches us.
Sent to the AI you chose
Your request and the PDF’s text go to the AI you picked, and nowhere else. Under every answer, Jean says where it was done.
Or not sent at all
With the AI on this computer, nothing leaves it: the one for a payslip or a medical letter. It needs 12 GB of memory and a recent graphics chip.
The catch, plainly.
- Jean is free; the AI behind it may not be. Without a sign-up, only the AI on this computer answers.
- A scanned PDF, with no text in it, isn’t read. A photo of the page is, by an AI that sees pictures.
- It doesn’t change a PDF or make one: it makes a Word document, which Word saves as PDF.
- A PDF’s layout isn’t kept: in Word, you get its text, headings and tables, not its look.
- A table read from a PDF is rebuilt from its text: check a few rows against the original.
- Jean can be wrong. Numbers are calculated; check the words, as you would a colleague’s.
Questions people ask
Is it free?
Yes, with no account at Jean. The AI that answers may want one: Start for free opens a free one, or use a plan you already pay for, or the AI on this computer, with no account at all.
Can it read a scanned PDF?
Not as a PDF: a scan has no text in it to read. Take a photo or a screenshot of the page instead, for an AI that sees pictures.
How long can the PDF be?
Up to 100 MB. A long one is read a part at a time, the pages a question needs found by search.
Can it turn a PDF into Word?
It writes a Word document from the PDF’s text, with its headings, lists and tables. The layout isn’t copied.
Is my PDF safe?
It is kept on your device, encrypted. Its text goes to the AI you chose, to answer; with the AI on this computer, nowhere.
Does it read other languages?
Yes: PDFs in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and many more, and it answers in yours.
Start with a PDF that isn’t confidential.
Jean opens with its box ready. Drop the PDF in, and ask.