Conversations and Citations

Once a document has finished processing, you can ask it questions directly instead of reading it start to finish. This page covers how to ask a question, how to read the answer, and how to trace an answer back to its source page.

Asking a question

Open a document's page view and type a question into the conversation panel. You can ask about a specific detail, a figure or table, or something that spans several pages. Keyline keeps the conversation history for the document, so you can ask a follow-up question without repeating context.

Reading citation-backed answers

Every answer carries numbered citations, and each one resolves to a single block of the document: a paragraph, a figure, a table, or an equation. A citation gives you the page number and a cropped image of that block, so you verify the claim against the original artwork in seconds. That matters most for technical or numerical details, where the answer lives inside a figure or a table.

Following a citation back to the source

Select a citation in an answer to jump straight to the page it references in the PDF view. This closes the loop between an answer and the document it came from, so you always know exactly where information originated.