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Drop a paper, let Claude structure it, then refine the result by hand.
Click the purple PDF Studio button in the sidebar. You land on the Intake queue — a dashboard that tracks every document you've processed. Drag-drop a PDF onto the upload zone or click to browse.
Quick Outline parses headings and structure heuristically — fast and free. AI Analysis (default) sends the full text to Claude Sonnet 4.5, which produces a semantic map rich with relationships and annotations. Pro users get unlimited AI runs; free users get three per month.
Within 30-60 seconds the draft appears in the preview pane. Scroll through the map element tree — every branch maps to a concept cluster from the paper, and every leaf carries a short summary. If a branch looks off, click it to flag it.
Use the inline edit tools to rename, merge, split, or delete map elements. Right-click any map element and pick 'Enrich with AI' to ask Claude for a deeper gloss, an example, or a contrary perspective. The original PDF stays pinned alongside the map so you can cross-reference quickly.
Once the draft looks right, click Save as New Map or Merge Into Existing. Merging respects your existing structure and inserts the new concepts as a fresh sub-tree you can reorganise later.
Open the Reader from the sidebar to read the PDF side-by-side with its map. Highlight any phrase in the PDF and Marvex Studio will automatically add it to the map as a citation map element — perfect for building up evidence trails across papers.