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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

May 13, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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Free ChatGPT for research papers!

PDFgear is an AI-powered app that lets you:

• Chat with a PDF like ChatGPT
• Convert a PDF to Word, Excel, etc.
• Edit a PDF
...and much more.

And it's totally FREE!

Here's how to use it:

Go to pdfgear(dot)com and download the app.

This is how PDFgear's home screen looks like after you have installed it.

Click on "Open File" at the top to open a research paper.

PDFgear will open the paper for you.

Click on the blue "Chat Now" button to your right.

PDFgear will give you a summary of the paper and suggest a few sample questions.

This is a very useful summary of my paper.

Simply start asking questions.

PDFgear works with research papers where you have text scanned as an image.

As you can see, pages in this PDF have been scanned as images. But PDFgear works perfectly with it.

This is just brilliant!

You can convert a PDF to a Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

You can also export pages of your PDF as images.

Click on the blue button in the top-right corner of the PDF and choose the appropriate format.

PDFgear also lets you edit a PDF.

Click on "Edit Text" in the top-left corner and start editing.

Want to learn about more AI-powered apps that will make your academic writing faster and easier?

I have a complete tutorial of 250+ slides for you.

Academics in universities like Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford are using it.

You can get it here:
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You can extract quotes from a research paper.

Click on the "Extract Text" button in the toolbar and select the quote you want to extract.

This feature works even if the text is scanned as a image.

Simply copy and paste the quote in your Word file.

If you are reading lengthy papers, you can choose "Night Mode" to make it easy on your eyes.

Adobe's Acrobat Reader also offers a dark mode but it only darkens the user interface and not the PDF itself.

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May 16

Mapping connections between research topics and publications is a time-consuming task.

NextNet is an AI app that can help you with it. It lets you run visual searches for topics related to life sciences.

It's free and very easy to use:

1. Go to getnextnet[.]com and click on "Get NextNet free."

Sign up for a free account.

2. Select "Explorer" in the left bar and type in your query.

NextNet will generate a graph containing nodes about diseases, drugs, genes, research publications, and so on.

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May 15

Finding research gaps takes a lot of time and labor.

Research Kick can help you with it.

It analyzes millions of papers in Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and PubMed to help you find research gaps — in minutes.

Here's how to use it:

1. Go to and click on "Get started."

Sign up with your email or Google account.

To use the app, you will need to buy a subscription plan:

10,000 credits for $9/month
120,000 credits for $99/year researchkick.com

2. This is how your Research Kick would look like.

It offers multiple LLMs including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.

Select a model you want to use.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

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May 15

Most AI apps for research need paid subscriptions, but Bohrium is free.

• Integrates Deep Seek with databases containing 160M+ papers.

• Answers questions with references to published papers.

Here's how to use Bohrium to supercharge your literature discovery:

1. Go to bohrium(dot)com and click on "Log in" in the bottom-left corner.

Enter your email to sign up for a free account.

2. In the bottom of the chat box, you will see options for AI models and databases.

Bohrium has integrated databases for natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, and the humanities.

Select "DeepThink" for detailed answers.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

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May 3

Apps like ChatGPT are unsuitable for scientific research. They generate fake references to papers that don't exist.

So, researchers at Future House built an AI scientist.

It generates detailed literature reviews with references to state-of-the-art research. And it's free.🧵

1. Go to futurehouse[.]org.

Click on "Platform" in the top-right corner. Sign up for a free account.

Future House has four AI agents:

• Crow: Concise search
• Falcon: Detailed literature reviews
• Owl: Finding literature gaps
• Pheonix: Chemistry-related queries

2. Select "Crow" and type in your question.

It'll look up relevant sources, gather evidence, and compose an answer. Click on "Results" to read it.

Hover your cursor over an endnote and it will show you the abstract of the paper cited.

A Crow search takes ~5 min.

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Apr 30

NotebookLM was already one of the best AI apps for academic work.
Now it supports 50+ languages.

• Summarize papers
• Generate audio overviews of papers
• Ask question about papers
• Prepare study guides

All this in your own language and that too for free.

1. Go to notebooklm[.]google[.]com.

Click on "Create new notebook" and upload a paper.

NotebookLM will give you its summary.

2. Click on "Settings" in the top-right corner and select "Output Language."

From the dropdown menu, select your language and click on "Save."

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@MushtaqBilalPhD

Apr 29

Chat Academia now lets you use your own OpenAI API key.

This will make the app much more affordable. You can use it to integrate 5 academic databases with ChatGPT.

Here's how to set your OpenAI API key in Chat Academia:

1. Go to platform[.]openai[.]com and sign up for an account.

2. Once you've logged in, click on "Start building" in the top-right corner.

Enter your name and select the level of your technical proficiency. Select "Create organization" and skip the next step.

Then click on "Generate API Key" and your API key will be generated.