This page is about that route and about being honest regarding what listening does for you.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
The sentences worth hearing again
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This tool uses text rules, not AI, and it does not read images or produce audio. It selects the sentences your text leans on hardest, which is the same judgement a spoken recap has to make before anything is read aloud. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.
Why a screenshot counts as material
It is an image file, and images are one of the three things WeSolve+ reads. That makes it the practical answer for anything locked behind a viewer: a slide in a portal, a reading that expires with the term, a page you are allowed to look at but not keep. A screenshot also arrives at full screen resolution, which is usually cleaner than a photograph of the same screen.
Photographing a screen is the worse option
Pointing a camera at a monitor introduces glare, moire patterns from the pixel grid, and whatever angle you were sitting at. The screenshot key produces the same content without any of it. This sounds obvious and is the single most common avoidable loss, usually because the material is on a laptop and the camera is in your hand.
What a spoken recap is actually for
Time you could not otherwise use. A walk, a commute, a queue: minutes that were never going to hold a practice session can hold a recap. That is a real gain and it is the whole case for the format. It is also the limit, because listening asks nothing of you and produces no moment where you find out you were wrong.
Which is why audio is the second thing, not the first
A recap tells you what a page said. Being asked about it tells you whether you can produce that yourself, and only the second one predicts an exam. The ordering that works is questions first while you are at a desk, recap afterwards while you are walking, so the audio reinforces material you have already been tested on rather than standing in for the test.
Slides are thin, and that is the catch
A slide is written to be spoken over. Six bullet points carry maybe forty words, and much of the meaning lived in what the lecturer said between them. A recap built from a thin slide will be thin in the same way, so the useful habit is to screenshot the slide and add your own line about what was said around it, before generating anything.
Where this sits in WeSolve+
Upload the screenshot like any other image and you get a short spoken recap, plus questions and a deck from the same material. There is no PowerPoint file import, no video and no recording of a lecture; a slide has to arrive as an image or a PDF. Free to start on web and iPhone. See pricing, audio recap and all features.
| Route | Quality | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Screenshot | Best available | Full screen resolution, no glare |
| Export to PDF, if allowed | Equal or better | Use this when the option exists |
| Photograph of the screen | Worst | Glare, moire, angle |
| PowerPoint file | Not supported | Export it to PDF first |
| Video of the lecture | Not supported | No video input of any kind |
| Audio recording | Not supported | No recording import |
Sources used on this page
- Screenshot
- Presentation slide
- Speech synthesis
- Audiobook
- Moiré pattern
- Automatic summarization
- Active recall
- Judgment of learning
- Spaced repetition
- Testing effect
- Forgetting curve
- Desirable difficulty
- Generation effect
- Metacognition
- Formative assessment
- Educational technology
- Multiple choice
- Study skills
- Study guide
- Test (assessment)
- Instructional scaffolding
- Overlearning
- Item analysis
- Educational assessment
- Note-taking
- Distributed practice
- Cloze test
- Flashcard
Can I upload a screenshot to WeSolve+?
Yes. A screenshot is an image, and images are one of the three inputs alongside PDFs and camera shots.
Is a screenshot better than photographing the screen?
Considerably. A photograph of a monitor adds glare, moire from the pixel grid and whatever angle you were sitting at, none of which a screenshot has.
Can I upload the PowerPoint file itself?
No. There is no PowerPoint import. Export the deck to PDF if the option exists, otherwise screenshot the slides.
What is a spoken recap good for?
Time you could not otherwise use, like a walk or a commute. It is review rather than practice, because listening never produces a moment where you find out you were wrong.
Should I listen before or after answering questions?
After. Questions tell you what you cannot yet produce; the recap then reinforces material you have already been tested on rather than standing in for the test.
Why does my recap feel thin?
Probably because the slide was. Slides are written to be spoken over, so add a line of your own about what was said around the bullets before generating anything.
Last updated: 2026-08-15