Question answering over your own PDFs with page-level citations
Humata is a question answering tool for documents you upload. You add PDFs, ask questions in plain language, and it answers with references to the page and passage it used, so the evidence is one click away. It is aimed at long, dense material: contracts, clinical papers, standards and technical manuals where reading everything is impractical. Summaries, questions that compare several files and a folder structure keep related documents together. It is a commercial service with a limited free allowance, and answers are only as good as the text layer in the files you feed it.
Last updated: 2026-09-20. This site only provides an index; for exact features, pricing, and licensing, see the official website.
contract review, paper reading, technical documentation and due diligence
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Text-based PDFs with a clean layout, such as papers, contracts and reports. Scanned images without an OCR text layer, complex tables and handwritten notes are where answers start to fall apart.
They point to the page and passage used, which is enough to check a claim quickly. Open the reference for anything that matters, since extraction from tables and footnotes is not perfect.
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