Flashcards from a PDF, including the scanned kind
Upload the chapter and the cards are written from it in about a minute — question on the front, the answer on the back, and the same upload also gives you short notes and practice questions. A photograph of the pages works as well as a file.
How do I make flashcards from a PDF?
Upload the chapter PDF to Veda, or photograph the pages, and the flashcards are written from it in about a minute — question on the front, answer on the back. Scans and handwriting both work. The same upload also returns short notes and practice MCQs with explanations. Free, with no ads.
A scan is fine. So is handwriting.
Most study PDFs in India are not clean exports — they are photographs of a textbook, a scanned question bank, or a classmate's notes shot page by page at an angle. Those are the normal input here rather than the awkward case. Your own handwriting works too, which is the one most tools cannot take.
- Text PDFs, scanned PDFs and photographs of pages
- Handwritten notes, read from a phone photo
- Up to three sources combined into one set
- A link or a typed topic, if you have no file at all
Cards, and the two things cards cannot do
A flashcard is good at one job: pulling a fact back out of your head. It is bad at explaining why the fact is true, and useless for practising a question you have to work through. So the same upload also returns short notes and practice MCQs, and the card you keep failing has an explanation waiting behind it.
- Flashcards — the answer on the back, not a summary
- Short notes — the one-page version of the chapter
- Practice MCQs with explanations, from the same pages
- All three from one upload, not three separate runs
Diagrams, formulas and tables, handled honestly
A chapter is not only prose. A formula becomes a card with the symbols spelled out, so you remember what each letter stood for. A table of dates becomes several cards rather than one unanswerable card. A labelled diagram becomes cards about the labels — which is the part an exam asks for.
- Formulas with the symbols named, not just the expression
- A table split into cards you can actually answer
- Diagram labels as cards, since that is what gets asked
- Reactions and equations written as the marking scheme wants them
The files this is built for
A textbook chapter
The ordinary case: one chapter, one set of cards, revised the night before.
A scanned question bank
Photographed page by page. The cards come from the questions, so you revise what is actually asked.
Your own handwritten notes
Shot on a phone. The most common input and the one most flashcard tools refuse.
A classmate's notes
Readable even when the handwriting is not yours and the pages are at an angle.
A reference PDF in English
Studied in English, revised in Hindi or Gujarati if that is the language you think in.
Three sources at once
The chapter, your notes and the question bank, combined into one set rather than three.
About uploading a PDF
Will it work on a scanned PDF, not a text one?
Yes. Scans and photographs of pages are the normal input here rather than the exception — most study material in India arrives that way.
Can it read my handwriting?
Yes, from a phone photo. Handwritten notes are among the most common uploads, and this is the capability most flashcard tools do not have.
How many cards do I get from a chapter?
It depends on the chapter rather than a fixed number — a dense Science chapter yields far more than a short poem. A typical chapter produces a few dozen across definitions, formulas, dates and diagram labels.
How long does it take?
About a minute for a chapter.
Do I only get flashcards?
No, and that is deliberate. The same upload returns short notes and practice MCQs with explanations, because a card is good at recall and bad at explaining why an answer is right.
What happens to diagrams and formulas?
A formula becomes a card with its symbols named. A labelled diagram becomes cards about the labels, since that is what gets examined. A table becomes several answerable cards instead of one impossible one.
Can I get the cards in Hindi or Gujarati?
Yes — the cards follow the language of what you upload, across 42 languages, with technical terms left in English the way textbooks leave them.
Is it free?
Yes, free on Google Play with no ads.
Also: the flashcard maker · flashcards in your language · the MCQ generator · ask about one question · browse the library
One chapter in. Twenty cards out.
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