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Step 1 · Drop in a PDF, DOI, or arXiv link
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Drag in PDFs or paste a DOI — Scholarly fetches metadata, references, and figures automatically and builds your library as you read.
Highlight any passage, equation, or chart and get a plain-language explanation grounded in the paper's own context — never hallucinated.
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