Question Generator

Upload a PDF and get AI-generated multiple-choice quiz questions from its content — no writing comprehension questions by hand to test yourself, a class, or a training group on a document.

How to use it

1. Upload the PDF you want quiz questions from.
2. Choose how many questions to generate (3-10).
3. Choose a difficulty: easy (straightforward recall), medium (requires understanding the main points), or hard (requires connecting multiple parts of the text).
4. Click Generate questions.
5. Copy or download the result — each row is one question, its four answer options, and the correct answer.

What it reads

The questions are generated from the PDF's embedded text layer — the same text you could select and copy in a PDF viewer. A PDF exported from Word, LaTeX, or a browser's "Print to PDF" has this; a scanned or photographed document usually doesn't, since it's really just a picture of a page with no text underneath. If your file has no extractable text, run it through Scanned PDF Converter first (it OCRs the pages into a searchable PDF), then generate questions from the result.

For very long documents, only the first ~60 pages (or roughly 20,000 characters of text, whichever comes first) are read — long enough for the vast majority of reports, articles, and study material, without the generation call growing unbounded on a 500-page file.

Reading the output

Each row of the result table is one question:

• Question — the question text.
• Options — all four answer choices, lettered A-D.
• Correct answer — the letter and text of the right choice, doubling as an answer key.

Download the CSV to drop straight into a spreadsheet, or copy it as plain text.

Tips

• Every question and answer is grounded only in what the PDF actually says — the model is instructed not to invent facts or ask about anything outside the text.
• Copy or download the result — like every AI-generated tool on this site, the questions aren't reproducible from a shared link (it's non-deterministic, so a link would just spend credits regenerating a different set).
• If you'd rather have a plain-language summary instead of quiz questions, use PDF Summarizer.

Is my file stored anywhere?

Your PDF's extracted text is sent to an AI provider to generate the questions, then discarded — it isn't logged, stored, or used to train anything. See the third-party data badge above the tool for details.

Does this work on password-protected PDFs?

No — remove the password first with Unlock PDF, then upload the unlocked file here.

Is this free?

Yes. Smallpdf's version of this tool requires a signed-in, paid account for every run. This one is free to try, and each run costs credits like every other AI tool on this site — no separate PDF subscription required.