# 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
figures, diagrams, and tables rather than plain text alone.

## 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

Because Keyline is built on Google Gemini's multimodal understanding, it reads a page as a
whole image, not only its extracted text. That means 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 instead of Keyline treating the image as blank space. This is the same
understanding that powers [conversations and citations](/docs/keyline/conversations-and-citations)
and [multi-file search](/docs/keyline/multi-file-search).