Uploads

Drop in your course files.

Drag them into the chat. Anchor reads each file once, pictures and tables included, then answers from it every time, pointing to the exact place it found the answer.

What Anchor reads

Every format your course comes in.

Each answer points back to the place it came from, in the form that file has.

PDF

PDFs

Lecture notes, readings, past papers. Text, tables and equations, and the graphs and screenshots inside.

Cites the page
PPT

PowerPoint slides

Each slide's titles and points, in order.

Cites the slide
DOC

Word documents

Course outlines, handouts and notes, with their headings kept.

Cites the section
TXT

Notes

Plain text and Markdown notes (.txt, .md).

Cites the lines
IMG

Pictures

Flowcharts, diagrams and screenshots (.png, .jpg, .webp), turned into a written description, arrows included.

Shown beside the answer
XLS

Spreadsheets

Every cell with its row and column labels (.xlsx), so number questions are answered from the cell itself.

Cites the cell
Scan with your phone

Printed handouts, too.

Tap the camera button in the chat and photograph each page. A scanned PDF from your phone's own scanner app works the same way.

1

Snap each page

Take a photo per page, or choose photos you already have. Retake, reorder or remove pages before you save.

2

Straightened and read

Each photo is cropped to the page and straightened, then its text is read by OCR (text recognition). A blurry or empty photo is flagged so you can retake it.

3

Check and fix, then save

See what was read beside each photo and correct any misread word. The pages are saved as one PDF, and any answer that rests on a scanned page shows that page.

Cites the page
What happens when you add a file

Read once. Answered from every time.

1

Read

The text, tables and equations come out with their page, slide or line kept, so answers can point back to them.

2

Pictures described

Each graph, flowchart or screenshot gets a written description. Arrows are read three times and kept only where the readings agree.

3

Indexed

Your file is split into passages and indexed two ways: by its words and by its meaning, so both exact terms and plain questions find it.

4

Ready to ask

A few minutes for a typical PDF. You'll see “Added to your Library” in the chat.

Yours alone. Your Library is private: nothing you add is shared with other users. To read your files and answer your questions, their text and pictures are sent to OpenAI, the AI provider Anchor uses. Delete a file and it is removed from every search index, and its text from your saved answers.
Not yet. Pictures inside Word and PowerPoint files aren't read yet (pictures in PDFs and picture files are). Scans work for printed pages; handwriting isn't read reliably yet. Files can be up to 25 MB.

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