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Chat with PDF: how to ask your documents questions and trust the answers
Instead of scrolling through dozens of pages to find one fact, you can just ask. But document chat is only useful if the answers are grounded in your file — here's what to look for.
What 'chat with PDF' means
You upload a document and ask questions in plain language. A grounded system retrieves the relevant passages from your file and answers from them — not from the model's general knowledge — and shows you the source.
Why citations matter
Ungrounded chatbots can confidently invent answers. The fix is citation: every reply should point to the exact passage it came from, so you can verify in one click. Veliqo cites every answer and will tell you when the document simply doesn't contain the information.
Great use cases
- Find a clause in a contract without reading the whole thing.
- Pull the method or results from a research paper.
- Ask a textbook chapter to explain a concept in simpler terms.
- Extract numbers and dates from a long report.