PDF to Flashcards
Flip cards made from your own notes
Upload a chapter, a handout or your lecture slides. ReadLoudly picks out the key terms and ideas and puts each on a card, with a short question or term on the front and the answer on the back.
Free account, 2 documents a day. Upload now, then sign up free to open it in the hub.
Example Made from this short text:
Plants make their own food through photosynthesis. Inside each leaf cell, chloroplasts hold a green pigment called chlorophyll, which absorbs sunlight. In the light-dependent reactions, that energy splits water and releases oxygen into the air. In the Calvin cycle, the plant then uses carbon dioxide from the air to build glucose, a sugar it can store or burn for energy.
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Chlorophyll Flip the card
The green pigment in chloroplasts that absorbs sunlight for photosynthesis.
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What do the light-dependent reactions release? Flip the card
Oxygen, from water split by the absorbed light energy.
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Calvin cycle Flip the card
The stage where the plant uses carbon dioxide from the air to build glucose.
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How to use PDF to Flashcards
Three steps, all in your browser, with a free ReadLoudly account.
Upload your document
PDF, Word (DOCX), EPUB or PowerPoint (PPTX).
Pick the deck size
5 cards for a quick check, up to 20 for a whole chapter. Free accounts start at 15.
Flip and review
Click or press space to flip, and use the arrow keys to move between cards.
What is a PDF to flashcards tool?
It turns a document into a deck of study cards. ReadLoudly reads your PDF, Word file, EPUB or slides, picks the terms and ideas worth remembering, and writes a short front of up to 15 words and an answer on the back of up to 60.
Short fronts, clear backs
A term or a question of up to 15 words on the front, an answer of up to 60 on the back.
Keyboard friendly
Space flips a card and the arrow keys move through the deck, so you can review without the mouse.
From your own material
Cards come from the document you upload, so the terms are the ones your course uses.
Printable for class
Teachers can print the deck as cut-out sheets from the Teacher Hub.
Flashcards for your class
In the Teacher Hub you can make up to 20 cards from a reading and print them as cut-out sheets, or export them to PDF or Word. Printable flashcard maker
Ready to test yourself?
Once the cards stick, turn the same document into a multiple-choice quiz with explanations. PDF to Quiz
How to study with flashcards
Answer in your head before you flip, and come back to the deck over several days. Our guide covers the method step by step. How to turn a PDF into flashcards that stick
Further reading: How to turn a PDF into flashcards that stick. See every tool on Study Tools.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about PDF to Flashcards.
5, 10, 15 or 20. Free accounts start at 15 and paid plans at 20.
A term or short question on the front, up to 15 words, and the answer on the back, up to 60 words.
PDF, Word (DOCX), EPUB or PowerPoint (PPTX). The document needs real text, so scanned or photo-only PDFs will not work. For a photo of a question, use the Homework Solver.
Yes. A free account covers 2 documents a day, and every tool you use on a document counts once, not once per tool. Paid plans raise it to 10, 20 or 35 documents a day.
Yes, a free one. Your study set is saved, so you can come back to it, and signing up does not ask for a card.
You upload the whole document once instead of pasting it into a chat. ReadLoudly keeps it as a study set, makes every tool from that one file, and can read the document itself aloud in 1,200+ voices.
Flashcards cannot be shared by link. Teachers can print them as cut-out sheets or export them to PDF or Word.
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