AI Question Generator – Questions from PDF Free
Turn any PDF into a practice quiz.
Drop in your study material and get a real quiz back — fill-in-the-blanks, true/false, multiple choice, and short-answer prompts, every question tied to its source page. Built on-device from your document’s own sentences. No cloud, no uploads, no account.
or choose a file from your device
Everything runs on your device — nothing is uploadedRule-based questions — built from your document’s own sentences, right here on your device. Answers are quoted from the source, never invented.
Turn Any PDF Into a Practice Quiz in Under a Minute
Here is a study trick that actually works: do not re-read your notes. Test yourself on them. The problem has always been that writing your own quiz questions takes longer than the studying. This tool does the boring part for you — it reads your PDF, finds the sentences that matter most, and turns them into fill-in-the-blanks, true/false questions, multiple choice, and short-answer prompts. You do the answering, which is where the learning happens.
The whole workflow:
- Drop your PDF into the tool above. Lecture slides, a textbook chapter, a training manual — anything with real text. It all happens in your browser, so your study material never leaves your device.
- Pick your question mix. Want 10 quick-fire questions before an exam? Tick fill-in-the-blank and true/false. Writing an essay exam? Turn on the short-answer prompts. Multiple choice is there when you want to guess under pressure.
- Answer honestly, then reveal. Each question hides its answer behind a reveal button. Every answer is a quote from your document — and every question tells you which page it came from, so you can go check the full context.
- Shuffle for a new set. Hit “New set of questions” and the tool builds a fresh quiz from the same document. Spaced repetition without the index cards.
- Print it if you like paper. Download the quiz as a .txt or a clean PDF with a separate answer key — perfect for a study group.
What the “AI” here really does (no marketing fog)
Let us be straight with you, because most quiz sites are not. There is no giant language model behind this tool, and it does not “understand” your subject. What it does is genuinely useful anyway: it scores every sentence in your document for importance — the same way our summarizer does — then applies fixed, transparent rules. A key name or number gets blanked out. A fact becomes a true/false statement, with the “false” versions built by swapping in a different number or name from the same document, so they are plausible but checkably wrong. Multiple-choice options are same-type terms from your own text, never invented. Short-answer prompts come from the document’s own headings and keywords, and the answer key points you at the right page instead of pretending to mark your essay.
Think of it as a tireless teaching assistant with a highlighter, not a professor. It will never invent a fact, because every question is built from sentences that are already in your document. That limitation is also its superpower: the answers it reveals are always faithful quotes from the source.
How to actually study with it (the part most people skip)
Generating the quiz is step one. The learning happens in step two: close the document and answer from memory. When you get one wrong, do not just read the answer — go to the source page the question names and re-read the paragraph around it. That ten-second trip back to the source is what moves the fact into long-term memory. Then hit “New set of questions” tomorrow and try again.
When it shines, and when it does not
It shines on fact-heavy material: dates, names, definitions, processes, textbook chapters, training manuals. It does not write essay questions a teacher would grade, and it cannot test ideas that are only implied rather than stated — it works with sentences that exist, not meanings between the lines. For contracts, medical results, or anything high-stakes, treat the quiz as a warm-up, not the exam.
Common Questions
Is this real AI?
It is real software, honestly described. The tool uses rule-based question generation on your own device: it scores and selects important sentences from your document, then turns them into questions with fixed templates. There is no cloud model and no rewriting — which means it can never hallucinate or invent facts.
Is my document uploaded anywhere?
No. Reading the PDF, scoring the sentences, and building the questions all happen inside your browser tab. Your file never leaves your computer, so private study material stays private.
Why do some questions say “open prompt” instead of giving an answer?
Those are the short-answer prompts — “explain in your own words” questions built from the document’s headings and key topics. A rule-based tool cannot fairly grade a paragraph you wrote, so instead of faking an answer, the answer key points you to the page where the topic lives. That is a deliberate design choice, not a missing feature.
What do Easy and Hard mean?
Easy builds questions from the document’s most important sentences — the ones a good student would highlight. Hard builds from the middle ranks: still fair, still sourced, but the giveaway sentences are gone. Use Easy for a first pass and Hard once you are scoring well.
Can I trust the multiple-choice options?
The correct option is always the document’s own term, and the three distractors are the same type of term — numbers with numbers, names with names — taken from the same document. If the tool cannot find three honest distractors, it skips multiple choice for that question instead of inventing options.
What about scanned PDFs?
Scanned pages are pictures, not text — there are no sentences to turn into questions, so the tool will tell you plainly instead of faking a quiz. Run the file through an OCR tool first, then quiz the result.
Can I save or print the quiz?
Yes — copy it to your clipboard, download it as a .txt file, or download a clean PDF with the answer key on a separate section at the end. The PDF is handy for study groups and classrooms.