Chat with a PDF: 7 Prompts That Actually Save Time

Asking a document questions beats re-reading it — if you ask well. These patterns consistently pay off.

The seven prompts

1) "Summarize this in 5 bullets for someone who has to decide X." 2) "List every date, deadline and amount, with where each appears." 3) "What obligations does [party] take on?" 4) "What's unusual or missing compared to a standard [document type]?" 5) "Explain section [N] in plain language." 6) "What questions should I ask before signing this?" 7) "Find every mention of [term] and summarize the context."

Trust, but verify

Kameleo's assistant answers from the document's extracted text, and good answers cite where they came from. For anything consequential, click through and read the cited passage — AI is a reading accelerator, not a substitute for the two paragraphs that matter.

Free vs. Claude

The built-in Kameleo AI is free and handles everyday documents well. For dense legal or technical material, adding a Claude key (or the Claude add-on) buys noticeably sharper reasoning on the same private pipeline — only extracted text is ever sent, never your file.