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GistCite for researchers, students and academics

Lectures, papers, archives and interviews become a corpus you can search, summarize and cite, with the page or timestamp attached to every point.

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What you can do with it

YouTube Transcripts

A lecture series into study notes

Playlist transcripts, summaries with chapters, and questions answered with timestamps.

How YouTube Transcripts does it

Open Library

Papers and public-domain books

Search six catalogues at once and bring the open items into the extractor.

How Open Library does it

Speech to Text

Interviews transcribed with timestamps

Whisper transcripts with word timing and a vocabulary hint for names.

How Speech to Text does it

The tools you will use most

  • Document Extractor

    Extract clean text and LLM-ready Markdown from PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, TXT, EPUB and HTML, with OCR for scans, then export in nine formats.

  • YouTube Transcripts

    Paste a YouTube link and get the full transcript with timestamps, in the video's own language or translated, as text or SRT subtitles.

  • Open Library

    One search across Google Books, Open Library, Project Gutenberg, arXiv, OpenAlex and the Internet Archive; download what is free to keep.

  • Speech to Text

    Dictate live in the browser for free, or upload a recording up to 500 MB for a Whisper transcript with word timestamps and SRT export.

  • AI Summary, Ask and Create

    Summarize any source into an overview, key points and timestamped chapters; ask questions with citations; create posts, briefs and scripts from it.

Worked examples

Graduate student

From a twelve-lecture playlist and two textbooks to a searchable study corpus

A public lecture playlist and two public-domain textbooks become one set of transcripts, summaries and chunked JSON, ready for revision or a personal AI index.

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Independent consultant

From a 120-page annual report to a cited two-page brief

A public annual report PDF becomes page-anchored Markdown, a set of extracted tables, answers with page citations, and an executive brief a client can verify.

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Questions from this audience

Is there a free plan?
Yes: 100 units a month covers transcripts and document extraction; AI features need Pro.

Further reading

Try it on your own material

The free plan covers transcripts and document extraction; Pro adds the AI and media tools.

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