About Elicit
Elicit helps researchers automate time-consuming tasks like deep literature reviews. It can find highly relevant papers without perfect keyword matches and extract key data points automatically.
Key Features
- Automated literature reviews
- Extract core data from PDFs
- Semantic search for abstract concepts
- Synthesize findings across papers
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