Reading and Analyzing PDFs

Keyline's PDF view is where you read a document and start a conversation about it. This page covers the page view itself, how to navigate a long document, and how Keyline reads the figures, diagrams, and tables on a page.

The PDF view

Opening a processed document shows the page images alongside a conversation panel. The page view loads progressively as you scroll, so long documents open quickly instead of waiting for every page to render at once.

Page navigation

You can move through a document page by page, or jump directly to a specific page. When an answer cites a page, following that citation takes you straight to it, so you never need to scroll to find the source of an answer manually.

Figures, diagrams, and tables

Keyline reads a page as a whole image and detects the semantic blocks on it: text, figures, tables, and equations. A chart, a diagram, or a table is understood in context, so a question like "what does the trend in this chart show" gets a real answer, and the block itself is what comes back as the citation. This is the same reading that powers conversations and citations and multi-file search.