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Documentation Index

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PDFs are first-class citizens in your Ontoic graph. When you upload a document, Ontoic splits it into chunks, embeds each chunk in the context of your existing knowledge, and makes every chunk available as a citable source. Your research papers, dissertations, reports, and notes all become queryable — and connected to everything else you know.

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How to upload

From the web app: Drag and drop a PDF file onto the Ontoic web app, or click the upload area to open a file picker and select your document. Ontoic accepts standard PDF files of any length. From mobile: Open the Ontoic Android app, tap the capture button, and select a PDF from your device storage. The file uploads and enters the same ingestion pipeline as web uploads.

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What happens after upload

Once a PDF lands in Ontoic, the ingestion pipeline processes it automatically:
  1. Chunking — the document is split into manageable chunks. Each chunk becomes its own node in your graph, preserving the source document as the parent.
  2. Contextual embedding — each chunk is described in the language of your existing graph before being embedded. This anchors the content to what you already know rather than treating it as an isolated document.
  3. Automatic connection — Ontoic links each chunk node to related nodes in your graph, surfacing conceptual connections across your knowledge base without any manual input.

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Citing PDFs in Ask

When you ask a question in Ontoic, relevant PDF chunks surface alongside other nodes — and they come with citations so you can trace the answer back to the source. A citation looks like this: 
PDF — dissertation · 47 pages · chunked
The citation identifies the source document, its length, and confirms it was processed as chunks. Click through to read the relevant chunk in context or navigate back to the full document node.

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Reverse bibliography

Paste a reference list into Ontoic and it fetches every paper for you automatically. Where full PDFs are available, Ontoic retrieves and ingests them. Where they are not, Ontoic captures the abstract and a link so the reference still becomes a node in your graph. This is useful when you are working through a paper’s bibliography or building out a reading list — instead of hunting down each source manually, you let Ontoic do it.
On the Pro plan, reverse bibliography and dossier mode pull external PDFs into your graph automatically, without you needing to locate or upload each file yourself. See billing and plans for details.