How do I convert a PDF to a quiz?

Upload your PDF on this page and click generate. The AI reads the document, pulls out the key terms and facts, and writes a quiz with multiple choice, true or false and short answer questions plus an answer key, in seconds. You can then edit any question and export the quiz to PDF or Word. There is nothing to install and no formatting work on your end.

How long does it take to convert a PDF into a quiz?

Seconds for a normal document, and the length of the file is what drives it. A handout or a single chapter comes back while you are still on the page. A long manual takes longer because the AI reads the whole file before it writes anything, rather than sampling the first few pages. The part that used to take an evening, writing the questions and the answer key, is what disappears.

How do I make a quiz from a textbook chapter?

Save or export the single chapter as its own PDF and upload that, rather than the whole book. One chapter per quiz keeps every question tied to the material students were actually assigned, and it stops the AI spreading forty questions thinly across six hundred pages. A typical 20 to 40 page chapter supports 20 to 40 solid questions. Drop the references, the index and the front matter before you upload.

Can AI make a quiz from a PDF?

Yes. PDFQuiz uses AI to read the content of your PDF and generate a quiz based on what the document actually says, including definitions, dates, names and concepts. It writes each question, marks the correct answer and drafts the answer options, then leaves every item open for you to edit before you export it.

What file types can I turn into a quiz?

Sixteen, so you rarely have to convert anything first: PDF, DOCX, DOC, PPTX, PPT, TXT, RTF, ODT, ODP, JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, BMP, TIFF and TIF. That covers Word documents, PowerPoint decks, OpenOffice files, and photographs of a page taken on a phone. Each file can be up to 20MB.

How many files can I upload at once?

Up to 10 files in a single upload, 20MB each. Uploading several files together is the right move when one topic is split across a reading, a slide deck and a handout, because the quiz is then written from all of them at once instead of three disconnected sets. For separate topics, run them separately so each quiz stays focused.

How do I make a quiz from a PDF for free?

Create a free account, upload your PDF and generate your first quiz at no cost, which is enough to see the full set of questions and judge the quality before you pay. Exports on the free tier carry a watermark, so paid plans are what you want once you are handing the quiz to a class or a team.

How many questions can I generate from one PDF?

You set the number. A rough guide is three to five solid questions per page of substantive content, so a ten page PDF might yield thirty to fifty questions and a full textbook chapter many more. Very long documents are the practical ceiling rather than a page count: past a certain length the AI has to spread coverage, so splitting a book into chapters gives sharper questions than uploading it whole.

Can I convert a PDF into a test instead of a quiz?

Yes. The same converter builds a longer, graded test from a PDF. Set a higher question count, mix multiple choice with short answer items, and keep the answer key for grading. Use the online test maker when you want a full exam rather than a short quiz from your document.

Does the PDF to quiz converter work with scanned PDFs?

It works best with PDFs that contain real, selectable text. A scanned PDF is a picture of a page rather than selectable text, so it has to be read visually, and the converter does that directly. You do not need to run a separate OCR pass or retype anything first. Legibility is what decides the result: a clean scan or a straight, well lit photo produces a solid quiz, while a dark or skewed one produces fewer usable questions.

Can I edit the questions the quiz maker generates?

Yes, every part of every question is editable. Rewrite a question, replace an answer option that is too easy to rule out, change the correct answer, adjust the wording or delete an item entirely. The AI gives you a strong first draft and you keep full control over the final quiz before exporting it.

Can I export the quiz to Word, Canvas or Moodle?

PDFQuiz exports your quiz and answer key to PDF or Word, and a deck to Anki as a tab separated file. It does not build a Canvas or Moodle import package. To use the quiz in your LMS, generate it here, then paste the questions into your LMS quiz builder or attach the exported file. The hard part, writing the questions from your PDF, is already finished.

PDF to quiz converter

PDF to Quiz: Quiz Maker and Generator That Converts a PDF Into a Quiz

PDFQuiz is a PDF to quiz converter that reads your document and writes the questions for you. Upload a PDF of a textbook chapter, lecture notes, a slide deck or a study guide, and this quiz maker pulls the key facts, terms and ideas out of the file and turns them into a quiz with multiple choice, true or false and short answer questions, each with the correct answer marked. You choose how many questions you want and how hard they should be, edit anything the AI drafts, then export to PDF or Word. Every question comes straight from your file, so the quiz covers exactly what you uploaded.

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Last updated August 2026

To turn a PDF into a quiz, upload the file to a PDF to quiz converter, choose how many questions you want and which types, and let the AI read the document and write the questions with an answer key. PDFQuiz pulls the terms, dates and ideas straight out of your PDF, so every question tests the exact content in your file. You can edit any question, then export the finished quiz to PDF or Word or share it as an auto graded online quiz. A one page handout takes a few seconds; a full textbook chapter takes about a minute. Our step by step walkthrough on how to make a quiz from a PDF covers the settings in detail.

Source files: PDF, Word, slides
Question types: MCQ, true/false, short answer
Export formats: PDF and Word

How many quiz questions your PDF can produce

Use this as a starting point when you set the question count. The AI can go higher or lower, but these ranges keep each question tied to real content in the file instead of padding.

PDF length	Typical source	Suggested questions	Best question mix	Build time
1 to 3 pages	Handout, one page of notes, a policy	5 to 10	Multiple choice and true or false	A few seconds
4 to 15 pages	Lecture slides, an article, a study guide	10 to 20	Multiple choice plus a few short answer	Under a minute
16 to 50 pages	A textbook chapter, a report	20 to 40	Mixed, grouped by section	About a minute
50 pages and up	A full textbook, a manual, a thesis	Split into section quizzes	Short answer and multiple choice per section	A minute or two per batch

For long files, quizzing one chapter or section at a time produces sharper questions than asking for a single quiz that spans the whole book.

What a PDF to quiz converter does

Convert a PDF you already have into a ready to use quiz

A PDF to quiz converter takes the content inside a PDF and turns it into questions you can answer from memory. Most documents you study or teach from already hold everything a quiz needs: a textbook chapter, a slide deck saved as PDF, a set of class notes, a policy or a study guide. Writing questions and answer options for every fact by hand is slow. PDFQuiz reads the PDF, finds the terms, dates, names and concepts worth testing, and drafts each question with the correct answer marked. You then take over to reword anything, swap an option, add or drop items, and set the difficulty. There is no fixed page count to stay under. The real limit is file size, 20MB per file and up to 10 files in one upload, so a two page handout and a full textbook chapter both work comfortably.

Reads your PDF directly

Upload the file as is. The reader pulls the text, headings and lists out of the PDF and builds questions around the content you uploaded, not generic facts off the internet.

Mixed question types

Generate multiple choice, true or false and short answer questions from the same PDF, so the quiz tests recall and understanding rather than one narrow format. If you only want MCQs, the PDF to MCQ converter is tuned for that.

Set count and difficulty

Tell the quiz maker how many questions you want and whether they should test recall or application, and it matches the question style to the level you choose.

Answer key included

Every quiz comes with the correct answers marked, so you can self check or hand a clean copy to a class or study group without writing the key yourself.

Full editing control

Nothing is locked. Rewrite a question, replace a weak answer option, change the wording or delete an item that misses the point. You decide the final quiz before you export it.

Export to PDF or Word

Download a quiz you own as a PDF or Word file. Print it, email it or paste it into your LMS. The questions are not trapped inside another app.

How it works

How to convert a PDF to a quiz in three steps

Upload your PDF

Drop in the PDF you want to test. A Word file or slide deck works too. Combine several files if the content you want to quiz spans more than one document.

Generate the quiz

Choose how many questions you want, then let the AI read the document and draft each one with the answer key marked. It takes seconds, not an evening.

Edit and export

Review each question, fix anything you want to change, then export to PDF or Word to print, share or study from right away.

Every kind of PDF

What you can turn into a quiz

If the content is in a PDF, you can make a quiz from it. These are the documents people convert most.

Textbook chapters

Convert a chapter PDF into a quiz that tests the terms and concepts students need before an exam, then edit anything that needs tightening. For longer revision sets, the practice test generator builds full length rounds.

Lecture notes and slides

Turn class notes or a slide deck saved as PDF into a quick quiz so students can check what they remember from the session.

Training manuals

Convert an onboarding or compliance PDF into a knowledge check that confirms people read and understood the material.

Study guides

Test yourself on a study guide instead of rereading it. Pair the quiz with the study guide generator for full coverage.

How to turn a textbook chapter into a quiz

Upload one chapter at a time, not the whole book. That single decision does more for question quality than any setting on this page, and it is the most common mistake we see.

A textbook is a big file with a wide spread of topics. Ask for forty questions from six hundred pages and the AI has to sample across the entire book, so you get one thin question per topic and nothing that matches what a class was actually assigned. Export or save the single chapter as its own PDF, upload that, and every question lands inside the material students read this week. A typical chapter of 20 to 40 pages carries enough substance for 20 to 40 solid questions, which is also about the length of a real unit test.

Chapters carry a lot of matter that is not worth testing. Stripping it before you upload is worth the minute it takes, because anything left in the file is content the AI may decide to write a question about.

Part of the chapter	Keep or cut	Why
Chapter body and headings	Keep	The explanations and examples are what the questions should come from.
Key terms box or glossary	Keep	Definitions convert into clean multiple choice items with unambiguous answers.
Figure and table captions	Keep	Captions usually restate the point of the figure in one testable sentence.
End of chapter review questions	Cut, usually	Leave them in and you risk a quiz that echoes questions students already have the answers to.
References and bibliography	Cut	Author names and publication years are trivia, not understanding, and they eat question slots.
Index, preface, publisher front matter	Cut	Pure noise. Nothing in it belongs on an assessment.

Covering a whole course, chapter by chapter

Run each chapter as its own upload and you finish the term with a per chapter question bank instead of one shapeless pile. Because each generation is fast, a twelve chapter course is an afternoon of uploads, and you can regenerate any chapter later for a fresh set of questions from the same reading, which is what you want for a retake or a second section. When one topic is split across a reading, a slide deck and a handout, upload those together instead: up to 10 files go into a single generation, so the quiz is written from all three at once rather than as three disconnected sets.

If the chapter you have is a scan or a set of phone photographs, upload it anyway. The converter reads pages visually, so there is no separate OCR step, though legibility decides how much it can use: a straight, well lit page produces a usable quiz and a dark or skewed one produces fewer questions. Once the questions come back, edit anything that reads oddly before you export, and pair the quiz with a full length mock from the PDF to practice test tool when the unit exam gets close.

Who uses it

Built for anyone who needs a quiz from a PDF

Teachers and instructors

Convert a reading or chapter PDF into a quiz with an answer key, then edit it to fit the class. Pairs well with the multiple choice quiz maker.

Students

Turn a textbook PDF or a stack of notes into a practice quiz before an exam, and test yourself instead of rereading the same pages.

Trainers and L&D

Build a quick assessment from a policy or training PDF so new hires can confirm what they learned without anyone writing questions by hand.

Why PDFQuiz instead of writing the quiz by hand

The slow part of a quiz is not the correct answer, it is reading the source and writing every question and the wrong options that still look right. Doing that for a whole document takes most of an evening. PDFQuiz reads the actual content of your PDF and drafts the questions, the correct answers and the answer options together, then hands you a quiz you fully control. The answer key is built in, every item is editable, and you export a standalone PDF or Word file, or a tab separated deck for Anki. If you also want the same content as multiple choice questions or as flashcards, generate them from the same upload and study more than one way.

Questions generated from your own PDF, not a generic question bank.
Editable questions and answer options with a built in answer key on every quiz.
Export a quiz you own to PDF or Word, or as a tab separated deck for Anki.

PDF to quiz: frequently asked questions

How do I convert a PDF to a quiz?: Upload your PDF on this page and click generate. The AI reads the document, pulls out the key terms and facts, and writes a quiz with multiple choice, true or false and short answer questions plus an answer key, in seconds. You can then edit any question and export the quiz to PDF or Word. There is nothing to install and no formatting work on your end.
How long does it take to convert a PDF into a quiz?: Seconds for a normal document, and the length of the file is what drives it. A handout or a single chapter comes back while you are still on the page. A long manual takes longer because the AI reads the whole file before it writes anything, rather than sampling the first few pages. The part that used to take an evening, writing the questions and the answer key, is what disappears.
How do I make a quiz from a textbook chapter?: Save or export the single chapter as its own PDF and upload that, rather than the whole book. One chapter per quiz keeps every question tied to the material students were actually assigned, and it stops the AI spreading forty questions thinly across six hundred pages. A typical 20 to 40 page chapter supports 20 to 40 solid questions. Drop the references, the index and the front matter before you upload.
Can AI make a quiz from a PDF?: Yes. PDFQuiz uses AI to read the content of your PDF and generate a quiz based on what the document actually says, including definitions, dates, names and concepts. It writes each question, marks the correct answer and drafts the answer options, then leaves every item open for you to edit before you export it.
What file types can I turn into a quiz?: Sixteen, so you rarely have to convert anything first: PDF, DOCX, DOC, PPTX, PPT, TXT, RTF, ODT, ODP, JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, BMP, TIFF and TIF. That covers Word documents, PowerPoint decks, OpenOffice files, and photographs of a page taken on a phone. Each file can be up to 20MB.
How many files can I upload at once?: Up to 10 files in a single upload, 20MB each. Uploading several files together is the right move when one topic is split across a reading, a slide deck and a handout, because the quiz is then written from all of them at once instead of three disconnected sets. For separate topics, run them separately so each quiz stays focused.
How do I make a quiz from a PDF for free?: Create a free account, upload your PDF and generate your first quiz at no cost, which is enough to see the full set of questions and judge the quality before you pay. Exports on the free tier carry a watermark, so paid plans are what you want once you are handing the quiz to a class or a team.
How many questions can I generate from one PDF?: You set the number. A rough guide is three to five solid questions per page of substantive content, so a ten page PDF might yield thirty to fifty questions and a full textbook chapter many more. Very long documents are the practical ceiling rather than a page count: past a certain length the AI has to spread coverage, so splitting a book into chapters gives sharper questions than uploading it whole.
Can I convert a PDF into a test instead of a quiz?: Yes. The same converter builds a longer, graded test from a PDF. Set a higher question count, mix multiple choice with short answer items, and keep the answer key for grading. Use the online test maker when you want a full exam rather than a short quiz from your document.
Does the PDF to quiz converter work with scanned PDFs?: It works best with PDFs that contain real, selectable text. A scanned PDF is a picture of a page rather than selectable text, so it has to be read visually, and the converter does that directly. You do not need to run a separate OCR pass or retype anything first. Legibility is what decides the result: a clean scan or a straight, well lit photo produces a solid quiz, while a dark or skewed one produces fewer usable questions.
Can I edit the questions the quiz maker generates?: Yes, every part of every question is editable. Rewrite a question, replace an answer option that is too easy to rule out, change the correct answer, adjust the wording or delete an item entirely. The AI gives you a strong first draft and you keep full control over the final quiz before exporting it.
Can I export the quiz to Word, Canvas or Moodle?: PDFQuiz exports your quiz and answer key to PDF or Word, and a deck to Anki as a tab separated file. It does not build a Canvas or Moodle import package. To use the quiz in your LMS, generate it here, then paste the questions into your LMS quiz builder or attach the exported file. The hard part, writing the questions from your PDF, is already finished.

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