# 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 is backed by a citation pointing to the page it came from. This lets you
verify an answer in seconds instead of taking it on faith, which matters most for
technical or numerical details pulled from a figure or 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](/docs/keyline/reading-pdfs). This closes the loop between an answer and the
document it came from, so you always know exactly where information originated.