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Where: Reader › ⋮ › Explain this document. Tools › Explain this document (a document from the library, Upload file or Take photo). Add › Scan and explain. Tools › Scan and explain.

Ai reads a document such as a bill, an official notice, a tax or social security letter, a bank letter, a school announcement, a contract or a medicine leaflet for you and explains it in plain language. The result card has the document type, a three-sentence summary, boxes for From, What it asks of you, Deadline and Amount, "What you should do" steps and, if needed, a yellow "Attention" note.

  1. 1Open the document and tap "Explain this document" in the ⋮ menu.
  2. 2 Ai reads the document; when the result arrives the summary is read aloud automatically. Listen again with "Listen", silence it with "Stop".
  3. 3If there is a deadline, "Add to calendar" adds that day to your calendar as an all-day event.
  4. 4"Write a reply" opens the Write a petition or letter screen; "Ask Ai" continues with a question in the document assistant.
  5. 5"Explain again" produces the result from scratch.

A file that is not in the library: in Tools › Explain this document choose a PDF or a photo with "Upload file", or photograph the letter with "Take photo". The file is explained without being added to the library; the explanation shows in a window, and "Listen" and "Add to calendar" work. For a file with no text (a photo, a scanned PDF) Ai first reads the first 3 pages (¼ Ai page per page). To keep it, tap "Add to library".

Free and Pro: Needs a Ai plan (Starter or Pro) or trial allowance. The cost is Ai pages according to the text's length: most letters are 1 Ai page, and at most the first 20,000 characters (8 Ai pages) are read. The result is saved with the document; reopening the same document brings it back for free.
Tip: With TalkBack on, a large "Scan and explain" card appears on Home and the result is announced to the screen reader; there is no separate automatic reading. Ai can be wrong; for important decisions check the original document.
Web (quillo.tr): On quillo.tr, reader › ⋮ › Explain this document; Add document › Scan and explain; Tools › Explain this document › Upload file (on a computer you can also paste an image with Ctrl+V). Add to calendar downloads an .ics file (Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar open it). If Drive is connected the result is written to the document's saved answers.
iPhone: Reader › ⋮ › Explain this document; Tools › Explain this document › Upload file (Photo from gallery or Choose file: a photo or PDF) or Take photo. The file is explained without being added to the library; "Listen" and "Add to calendar" work; "Add to library" takes the file in and opens it.

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