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PDF → Anki flashcards. Study smarter, in one click.
Drop a PDF — textbook chapter, lecture notes, research paper, certification study guide — and walk away with an Anki-ready CSV. Pick basic Q/A or cloze deletion, 10 to 50 cards, optional focus hint. Each card cites the source page so you can verify before adding to your deck. Built for med students, law students, language learners, certification candidates, and anyone tired of typing flashcards by hand.
How it works
- Drop the PDF onto letsgoPDF. pdf.js extracts the text in your browser — the file itself never leaves your device.
- Pick how many cards (10 / 25 / 50) and the style — Basic (two-sided Q/A) or Cloze (fill-in-the-blank). Optional: a focus hint to scope the cards to one topic.
- Click Generate. Cards stream in below — each one cites the page it came from. Click any
(p. 14)to jump to that page in the preview pane. - Click Download CSV. In Anki: File → Import, pick your CSV, choose Basic or Cloze note type, click Import. Your deck is ready to study.
Two card styles
- Basic Q/A. Two-sided cards: question on the front, concise answer on the back. Best for definitions, "what is X?", "why does Y happen?", key dates, formulas.
- Cloze deletion. A sentence with a key term hidden — you recall the missing word. Best for memorizing concepts in context: "The capital of France is {{c1::Paris}}." Works well for medical terminology, legal phrases, vocabulary.
Who's this for?
- Med students. Convert First Aid, lecture slides, Anking-style decks. Cloze mode is your friend for drug names, mechanisms, anatomy.
- Law students. Black-letter rules, case names, statutory elements — Q/A turns dense outlines into atomic recall units.
- Language learners. Drop a textbook chapter or article in the target language; cloze cards force active recall of vocabulary in context.
- Certification candidates (AWS, CFA, PMP, USMLE, NCLEX, bar exam). Convert official prep PDFs into spaced-repetition decks instead of paying $200 for a pre-made one of dubious quality.
- Anyone reading non-fiction. Generate 10 cards on the chapter you just finished — you'll remember it three months from now.
Why letsgoPDF for PDF → Anki
- Page citations on every card. Most AI flashcard tools just generate text; we cite the source page so you can verify the card before it enters your deck. Bad cards in spaced repetition are worse than no cards.
- Focus hint. Don't want every detail — just "drug interactions" or "exam-relevant equations"? Type it. The model prioritizes those topics.
- CSV, not lock-in. Standard CSV format works in Anki, RemNote, Mochi, or any flashcard tool that imports CSV. Your data stays portable.
- Privacy. The PDF stays in your browser. Only the extracted text goes to the AI — your annotations, signatures, and embedded files do not.
- Same toolkit. Need to OCR a scanned textbook first? Compress a 200MB scan? Redact your name from a shared PDF? letsgoPDF has all of it. One stop instead of three sites.
Common questions
- How many cards can I generate?
- Pro tier (US$5/mo) includes 20 flashcard generations per month. Each generation can produce up to 50 cards. So that's up to 1,000 cards/month, which is enough to keep most students busy. Premium ($15/mo) is unlimited.
- Does it work for textbooks (200+ pages)?
- The model gets up to 80,000 characters of context — roughly 30-40 textbook pages of dense prose. For longer documents, split into chapters first (PDF tools → Split) and run each chapter separately. You'll get better cards anyway, since the model can focus.
- Can I edit the cards before downloading?
- Not in the app yet — copy the streamed text, edit, then build your CSV manually. Edit-in-app is on the roadmap. For now, the cite-page-on-every-card design lets you verify quickly before importing.
- Is the CSV compatible with Anki on iOS / mobile?
- Yes. Import the CSV into Anki on desktop, sync to AnkiWeb, your phone will pick up the new deck on next sync. Anki's own import doesn't run on mobile.
- What if the AI gets a card wrong?
- It will, occasionally — that's why we cite source pages. Verify-then-import is the workflow we recommend. Bad cards in your deck will haunt you for months because of how spaced repetition works.
- Does it work on Word / PowerPoint files?
- Yes. Drop a .docx or .pptx; letsgoPDF auto-converts to PDF first (uses 1 of your monthly cloud conversions), then runs flashcard generation on the result.