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Quiz from a PDF

Generate questions from a PDF

Turn a course, a manual or a report into a set of questions — then export them, or publish them as a quiz that collects answers.

Generate questions from a PDF online

Writing questions on a document you already know well is slow and oddly hard: you skip what seems obvious and cluster around what you found interesting. This tool reads a PDF and proposes questions across it — multiple choice, true or false, short answer, or a mix — at the difficulty you choose, from easy to hard or deliberately mixed. You keep what works, drop what does not, and export the set to Word, Excel or PDF; Excel is the practical one if the questions are going into another system, since each question lands in its own row. You can also publish the set as an interactive quiz that collects answers, which turns a document into something you can actually give to a class or a team. The questions are generated automatically and must be reread before use: a generated question can be ambiguous, can rest on a passage read too literally, or can have an answer that is defensible but not the one intended. Treat the output as a first draft written quickly by someone who has read the document — useful, and not to be shipped unchecked.

How to generate questions from a PDF

  1. Upload the PDF

    A course, a manual, a procedure, a report — any document with real text.

  2. Choose the shape

    Difficulty: easy, medium, hard or mixed. Type: multiple choice, true or false, short answer, or a mix of all three.

  3. Review, then export or publish

    Keep what works, then export to Word, Excel or PDF — or publish an interactive quiz that collects answers.

Why use it

Covers the whole document

Questions are drawn across the material rather than clustering on the passages you happen to find interesting — the failure mode of writing them yourself on a text you know too well.

Three export formats

Word to edit, PDF to hand out, Excel to import elsewhere — one question per row, which is what another system will want.

Or a quiz that collects answers

The set can be published as an interactive form, so a document becomes something you can give to a class or a team and get results back from.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of question can it produce?
Multiple choice, true or false, and short answer — or a mix of the three. Difficulty is chosen separately: easy, medium, hard, or deliberately mixed so a set has both warm-up and demanding questions.
Can I trust the questions without reading them?
No, and it would be wrong to suggest otherwise. Questions are generated automatically: one can be ambiguous, can rest on a passage read too literally, or can have an answer that is defensible but not the intended one. Read them before use. The value is in not starting from a blank page, not in skipping the review.
In what formats can I export?
Word, Excel and PDF. Word if you want to rework the wording, PDF to hand out as it is, Excel if the questions are going into another system — each question occupies its own row.
What is the interactive quiz?
Instead of exporting a file, you publish the set as a form that people answer online, and the responses come back to you. It turns a document into an exercise you can actually give out, without rebuilding the questions in another tool.
Does it work on a scanned PDF?
Only if the scan has been through OCR first. A document with no text layer holds no readable content, so there is nothing to build questions from. Run OCR on it and the generator works normally.
Do I need an account?
Yes — generation runs on our servers and the quizzes you publish are attached to your account. Creating an account is free.

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