# Turn a PDF into a quiz that shows its sources > Turn a PDF into a quiz where every question quotes the sentence and page it came from, and that quote is checked against the page. Free to try, no account. Markdown copy of https://meduniexam.com/pdf-to-quiz (the HTML page), published by MedUni Exam. Published September 15, 2026, updated September 23, 2026. Site guide for agents: https://meduniexam.com/llms.txt. Upload a PDF and get exam questions back, and under every one of them the sentence it was written from and the page that sentence sits on. A question whose quote is not on the page it cites never reaches you. [Upload a PDF](https://meduniexam.com/#/) Free to try. No card and no account needed. [Try the sample exam](https://meduniexam.com/#/sample), ten real questions with no upload and no account. ## What happens between the upload and the first question 1 **Every page is read and stored.** A page with a text layer is read as it is. A scanned page with no text layer goes through optical character recognition first. Either way the text is kept against its page number, which is what the checks run against later. 2 **The model is asked for questions that quote the page.** Each question has to come back with one or two verbatim lines from the passage it was given and the page number those lines are on. A question with no quote is not a question. 3 **The quote is looked up.** The quoted sentence is searched for in the stored text of the page it cites. If it is not there, the question is dropped before you see it. 4 **A second model answers it blind.** A model from a different family is shown the question and the quotes, never the answer key. If it picks something else, the question is dropped too. 5 **What survives is your quiz.** Questions appear as they pass, each with its quote and page printed underneath. You take the quiz on the site, and wrong answers come back on a spacing schedule. [Every check, and what each one rejects](https://meduniexam.com/how-it-works.md). The rejection rates per model family are published on [the rejection rates page](https://meduniexam.com/stats/rejections.md), with the counts behind them. ## Measured on real files | Lane | File | Work | Wall clock | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Free pool | An OpenStax anatomy chapter of 44 to 60 pages, text PDF | 20 questions generated and checked | about 15 to 18 seconds | | Reading only | A 900 page textbook, text PDF | every page read and stored | under 40 seconds | Measured on the live site, the chapters on September 23, 2026 and the textbook on September 12, 2026, from the moment the job started to the moment the last question was accepted. Your own times move with the length of the job and how busy the free lane is that hour. Those rows are the whole speed claim. A longer job, or a busy hour on the free lane, takes longer than the chapters above. ## One PDF, several kinds of quiz A file is not one quiz. Once a PDF is stored you generate from it as often as your allowance allows, and each run can ask for a different shape: | Ask for | What comes back | Good for | | --- | --- | --- | | Single best answer | A stem with four or five options and one key | Definitions, classifications, drug classes | | Clinical vignette | A short case followed by the question | Presentation, investigation and management | | Multi-select | More than one correct option | Mechanisms and pathways with several steps | | True or false | A statement to judge | Fast recall drilling | | Short answer | A question you type the answer to, graded against the source | Anything you will be asked out loud | A whole textbook becomes a library of quizzes rather than one. Generate a chapter at a time, and later exams are weighted toward the chapters you keep missing. ## What a plain PDF to quiz converter leaves out Most tools that turn a PDF into a quiz hand back a list of questions and nothing else. The questions read well, and one in a batch has a wrong key, because the model rounded a number, merged two sentences or answered from memory instead of from the file. You cannot tell which one, so you either trust all of them or check all of them by hand, and checking by hand is the work the tool was meant to save. Here the check is done before you see the question, and the evidence is printed under it. A question that cannot show its line is thrown out rather than shown. On production jobs that is a large share of what the models write, and the share is published rather than hidden: see [rejection rates by model family](https://meduniexam.com/stats/rejections.md). For a line by line comparison with one of the converters, see [PDFToQuiz compared with MedUni Exam](https://meduniexam.com/compare/pdftoquiz.md); for what happens when you paste the same chapter into a general assistant, see [making practice questions with ChatGPT](https://meduniexam.com/compare/chatgpt.md). ## Which PDFs work, and which do not - **Text PDFs** are the best case: exact quotes and exact page numbers. A textbook chapter, a handout, a set of typed notes. - **Scanned PDFs** work. Pages with no text layer are read with optical character recognition, and the quote check then runs against the recognized text. A poor scan costs questions rather than accuracy, because a garbled quote is rejected, not guessed at. [How to scan so the quotes check out](https://meduniexam.com/for/scanned-textbooks.md). - **Slide decks exported to PDF** work, though the .pptx file itself is better, because each slide is then read as a slide and cited by slide number. [Uploading PowerPoint decks](https://meduniexam.com/for/lecture-slides.md). - **Figures, tables laid out as images and photomicrographs** are not read. A fact that lives only in a picture cannot become a question, because there is no sentence to quote. - **Size.** Up to 3,000 pages a document, of which up to 600 may be scanned pages. Large files upload in parts, and a text PDF can be read by the browser in seconds without uploading the file at all. ## What it costs The free plan is 300 verified questions a month with an account, 60 a month as a guest with no account, on a pool of open-weight models, with uploads, grading, spaced review and exams included. For one exam block there is a 90 day Exam Pass at $19.99 that moves your jobs onto the priority models and adds the downloads, or a 500 question pack at $5.99 that keeps for a year. Neither renews. Pro is $9.99 a month if you want the priority models all the way through. [Every plan, line by line](https://meduniexam.com/pricing.md). Works in any language, and quality varies by language: the questions come out in the language of your document, or in the one you pick from a list of every living language. [What works in your language, and what does not](https://meduniexam.com/for/any-language.md). ## Questions about turning a PDF into a quiz ### Do I need an account to turn a PDF into a quiz? No. A guest workspace gets 60 verified questions a month with no account and no card. An account raises that to 300 a month and keeps your library, grades and review queue across devices. ### How many questions can one PDF give me? As many as your allowance covers. A 900 page textbook is read and stored in under 40 seconds, and you then generate from it chapter by chapter, so a book is not a single quiz but a library of them. The free plan covers 300 verified questions a month. ### Can I download the quiz? On a paid plan, yes: as a tab separated file for Anki, as a CSV for a spreadsheet, or as a page laid out for a printer. Every question takes its answer, its quote and its page number with it. On the free plan you take the quiz on the site. ### Does it work with a PDF that is not in English? Yes. The questions come out in the language of the document, or in the one you pick from the list. The any language page says which parts of the checking are written in your language and which are not. ### Is my PDF used to train anything? Passages of your file are sent to AI providers to write and check the questions. The paid lanes use providers that state they do not train on what they receive. The free lane runs on an open model pool where some free tiers may use what is sent to improve their own models, and the privacy policy names each one. [Upload a PDF](https://meduniexam.com/#/) [See pricing](https://meduniexam.com/pricing.md) No account needed to try it. Registering keeps your library, grades and review queue across devices. ## Related pages - [AI question generator](https://meduniexam.com/ai-question-generator.md): What the generator reads, the question shapes it writes, the five rules each question passes, the measured speeds and the prices. - [How it works](https://meduniexam.com/how-it-works.md): The verification pipeline, step by step, including what gets rejected and why. - [Scanned textbooks to exam questions (OCR)](https://meduniexam.com/for/scanned-textbooks.md): How scanned and photographed material is read, and how to scan so the quotes check out. - [PowerPoint slides into exam questions](https://meduniexam.com/for/lecture-slides.md): Uploading PowerPoint decks: what is read, what is not, and why the questions cite slide numbers. - [PDFToQuiz vs MedUni Exam: limits, prices, quotes and checks](https://meduniexam.com/compare/pdftoquiz.md): Specification rows against PDFToQuiz, including the rows where they are ahead.