AI with citations to the documents you upload
Search+ is AI with citations to your own documents. You upload PDFs, ask a question, and the answer arrives with inline citations that name the source document and quote the excerpt the point rests on. The citations are not web links and not formatted references: they point inside the files you supplied, with a page or section reference when the PDF carries one. Open any citation to read the passage and judge for yourself whether it says what the answer claims.
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What a cited answer looks like
The parts of an answer you can inspect, using questions like these.
Ask "What notice period does the agreement require?" and the sentence that answers it ends with a citation marker tied to the agreement and the clause text it relied on.
Opening a citation shows the supporting excerpt from the document, so checking the answer takes one click instead of a search through the file.
If the PDF has page numbers or headings the parser can read, the citation includes a page or section reference. If not, the citation still names the document and excerpt, and no location is made up.
For a question asked across a workspace, different sentences can cite different documents, which shows which file contributed each part of the answer.
What does "AI with citations" mean?
The phrase covers two different kinds of tool. Some AI assistants search the web and attach links to the pages they used. Others answer only from documents you provide and cite passages inside those documents. A third meaning, common among students, is a writing tool that formats references in a citation style. Search+ belongs to the second group. Its answers come from the PDFs in your workspace, and the citation model is built so the AI refers to stable source ids that the backend resolves to real excerpts, rather than writing locations from memory. That design is why a Search+ citation either points to a real passage or does not appear at all.
How to get cited answers from your documents
- Open a workspace
Create a workspace and give it a name that describes the material, so its citations stay within one body of documents.
- Upload the PDFs you want cited
Drop in up to 10 PDFs per batch and wait for each file to show as indexed.
- Ask a specific question
Specific questions produce tighter citations. Scope the question to one document when you want every citation to come from that file.
- Open the citations
Click a citation to read the excerpt. If the excerpt does not support the sentence, ask a follow-up or check the document directly.
How Search+ citations work
Answers include inline citations that point to the source document and the supporting excerpt.
The citation model has the AI cite stable source ids that the backend resolves, so it does not invent citation locations.
Citations include page or section references when the document provides them, and Search+ does not invent locations the document does not contain.
Open a citation to read the excerpt behind the answer.
Ask Search+ to trace a specific claim back to the passages that support it.
Ask across a whole workspace or narrow the question to one document, which decides which files can be cited.
Where the citations stop
Search+ does not search the internet, so it cannot cite a web page or a paper you have not uploaded.
It does not produce bibliography entries in APA, MLA, Chicago or any other style. Format references in your writing tool.
A citation opens the excerpt, not a full document viewer at the exact page. Use the page reference, when present, to find the passage in your own copy.
AI answers can be incomplete or inaccurate. Read the cited excerpt before relying on an important claim.
Citations in Search+ compared with pasting text into a general chatbot
| Question | Pasting text into a chatbot | Search+ |
|---|---|---|
| Where does the answer come from? | Whatever you pasted, plus the model's general knowledge | The PDFs in the chosen workspace |
| Can you see the supporting passage? | Only if you ask and the model quotes it | Each supported point links to its excerpt |
| Are locations real? | Page numbers can be guessed | Locations appear only when the document provides them |
| Is the material still there next week? | Usually you paste it again | The workspace and conversation are saved |
Questions about AI with citations
Does Search+ give citations and references?
Is there free AI with citations here?
Is this the best AI with citations?
Can the citations be wrong?
Why do some citations have no page number?
Do citations still work when I ask across many files?
Can students use it to check sources?
Can I get citations from Word files or scanned documents?
See the passage behind every answer
Upload a PDF and ask a question; each supported point comes back with its excerpt.
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