The review
What it does
Drop in a set of papers, reports or contracts and tell Paperboat what to compare: methods, sample sizes, prices, deadlines, whatever matters to you. It builds a table with one row per document, and every cell links to the page it came from.
Why we like it
Literature reviews and vendor comparisons both boil down to the same chore: reading many documents for the same few facts. Paperboat does the first pass in minutes and makes checking easy because every cell is traceable. You can add a column at any time and it re-reads only what it needs to.
Watch out for
- Scanned PDFs with poor text recognition produce empty or wrong cells.
- It extracts what a document says, not what it implies. Interpretation is still your job.
- Tables with more than about forty documents get sluggish.
