Socrates

Socrates - Deep Dive into any Doc is a comprehensive AI-powered document analysis tool that provides deep, accurate answers from PDFs, DOCXs, EPUBs, and more. It emphasizes thorough extraction, multi-pass reasoning, and privacy, with local or cloud options and a range of specialized features to streamline research and information retrieval. Users praise its depth of insight, fast results, and engaging UX, making it suitable for in-depth reading, knowledge base creation, and complex document workflows.

How Socrates Works

• Upload your document in PDF, DOCX, EPUB, text, or other supported formats. Supported files are analyzed using multiple passes to extract and organize information.
• Ask questions and receive complete answers that include citations from the source documents.
• Use multiple AI workflows to tailor extraction, comparison, and summarization to your needs, including table-based comparisons and focused page search.
• Run analyses locally with LLMs like Llama 3 for privacy, or enable cloud-based processing with Azure OpenAI—data privacy policies ensure user control over data usages.

Core Features

• Deep Dive: multi-pass document analysis that breaks down long documents into actionable insights
• Flow AI: build custom AI workflows to extract exactly what you need from multiple sources
• Table AI: generate structured tables to compare and contrast content across documents
• Local LLM Support: perform analysis locally without sending data to the cloud
• Multi-Document Q&A: ask questions across a selected set of documents
• Page-Scoped Search: focus searches on specific pages or sections for precise results
• Save & Reuse Prompts: store frequently used prompts for quick reuse
• OCR Options: optional OCR for image-based documents (availability varies by plan)
• Unlimited Cloud Files per Chat: manage large projects with multiple files
• Flexible Pricing Tiers: Free plan plus paid tiers with increasing capabilities
• Privacy & Security: data stays on your device or is protected by enterprise-grade cloud options, with clear data handling policies

How to Use Socrates

1. Get Started Quickly — use the web version or download the Windows app to begin.
2. Upload Documents — add PDFs, DOCXs, EPUBs, text files, and more.
3. Ask Questions — query the content and get complete, source-cited answers.
4. Leverage Advanced Features — use Deep Dive, Table AI, and Flow AI to build tailored analyses.

Pricing Overview

• Free plan available with essential features and local processing options.
• Basic, Premium, and Professional tiers add increased page limits, more prompts, longer chats, and higher processing capabilities.
• Deep Dive pages and cloud file limits grow with plan level; data privacy and local/offline options vary by tier.

Safety and Privacy Considerations

• Documents can be analyzed locally or securely in the cloud depending on plan configuration.
• Citations are included with each answer to maintain traceability to the source material.
• Users should review data handling policies for compliance with their organizational requirements.

Getting Started

• Web Version
• Download for Windows
• Explore the tutorial and interactive demo to learn how Socrates can accelerate document-driven research.

Why Use Socrates?

• Deep, accurate insights from long and complex documents
• Flexible workflows for knowledge extraction, comparison, and summarization
• Strong emphasis on privacy and security with local processing options
• Positive user feedback highlighting speed, accuracy, and usefulness for research and learning