Lateral - Streamline Your Research Workflow

Lateral Streamline Your Research Workflow

What is Lateral?

Lateral transforms academic research and document review through its sophisticated AI-powered platform. The tool seamlessly integrates document management, intelligent search capabilities, and automated organization features to streamline the research workflow.

Through its smart PDF reader and powerful OCR technology, researchers can efficiently process, search, and analyze documents while maintaining clear references and organized findings. The platform supports collaboration through shared workspaces and includes features for exporting findings directly to Word or Excel formats.

Features

Auto-Generated Table: Automated overview creation of findings with reference tracking
AI-Powered Concepts: Intelligent text recommendation across papers based on user-defined concepts
Super Search: Cross-document search functionality with similar highlight suggestions
Smart PDF Reader: Browser-based reading with intelligent highlighting
OCR Technology: Conversion of scanned PDFs into searchable text
Export Functionality: Direct export to Word or Excel with preserved references
Collaboration Tools: Workspace sharing and public link generation
Paper Search: Access to 30M+ research papers database

Use Cases

Literature Reviews
Dissertation Research
Academic Note-taking
Collaborative Research Projects
Curriculum Development
Journalistic Research

FAQs

What are Page Credits and how do they work?

Page Credits are consumed when adding PDF files to Lateral, with one credit per page. Premium monthly subscribers get 1,800 credits (approximately 108 papers) while Pro monthly subscribers get 5,000 credits (approximately 250 papers).
Does Lateral use GPT?

No, Lateral uses its own proprietary machine learning technology (LIP API) for content suggestions, and content is not sent to OpenAI servers.
What languages does Lateral support?

The app works best with English. While keyword search works in other languages, the AI suggestions are currently only available for English content.