Free Writing Tools for Academic Work
A citation generator for the six styles universities ask for, readability and vocabulary checkers, image-to-text OCR, document conversion and an open-access paper finder. Free, in the browser, and none of it needs an account.
Used by students and researchers at universities worldwide
Everything you need to write better
A focused set of tools for the mechanical side of academic writing.
Tools that check, tidy, format and find
None of them will write your work for you - there is no essay generator here and there is not going to be one. They handle the parts of academic writing that are mechanical rather than intellectual, and they tell you plainly what they cannot do.
PT Academia is the writing-tools division of PT Technologies.
Why PT Academia
Tools that stay out of your way and just get the job done.
Fast and simple
Clean, focused tools that do the job without clutter or sign-up friction.
Honest about what they do
Every score shows how it was worked out, and every tool says what it cannot do.
Built for academic work
Essays, theses, papers and reports - the writing you have to hand in.
Private by design
Nothing you paste reaches our server - the tools run in your browser.
What this site is for
PT Academia is a set of tools for writing you have to hand in - an essay, a dissertation chapter, a report, a paper. Not marketing copy, not blog filler. That focus is why the tools look the way they do: the Citation Generator covers the six styles universities actually ask for, the Title Case Converter follows APA, MLA and Chicago where they disagree, and the Paper Finder only returns copies that are legally free to read.
All of it is free and open, and there are no accounts. It is the writing-tools division of PT Technologies, a software company registered in Tashkent whose other divisions are PT Theology, PT Entertainment and PT Health & Vital Care.
What none of these tools will do is write your work for you. There is no essay generator here and there is not going to be one. The tools are for checking, tidying, formatting and finding - the parts of academic writing that are mechanical rather than intellectual.
Where to start, depending on what you have
If your prose feels flat and you cannot say why, the Lexical Diversity checker measures vocabulary variety and points at the specific culprits: the verb you have used eleven times, the four paragraphs that all open with "However", the run of sentences that are all the same length. The Readability Checker puts six formulas side by side and shows what each one is actually measuring.
If you are assembling sources, the Citation Generator turns a DOI, ISBN, URL or title into a formatted reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE or Vancouver, and the Paper Finder locates a legal free PDF of a paper when one exists. The Word Counter, Speech Calculator, Title Case Converter, Image to Text and PDF converter handle the mechanical jobs around a deadline.
What is free
Everything, with no account and no limit: the Citation Generator, Title Case Converter, Lexical Diversity checker, Readability Checker, Word Counter, Speech Calculator, Image to Text, PDF and Word conversion, and the Paper Finder. There is no paid plan, and no account to make.
Nothing you paste into a tool reaches our server: most run entirely in your browser, and the ones that look something up ask public scholarly records (Crossref, Unpaywall, Open Library, Google Books) or a word list (Datamuse) directly from your browser.
Common questions
Do I need an account?
No. The Citation Generator, Title Case Converter, Lexical Diversity checker, Readability Checker, Word Counter, Speech Calculator, Image to Text, PDF/Word converter and Paper Finder are all open to everyone, and there are no accounts to make.
Is it actually free, or is this a trial?
Actually free. There is no trial, no card and no paid plan - every tool is open to everyone, with no limit on how much you use it.
Is my text stored or used for training?
No. Nothing you paste into a tool reaches our server: most run entirely in your browser, and the ones that look something up ask public scholarly records (Crossref, Unpaywall, Open Library, Google Books) or a word list (Datamuse) directly from your browser. Nothing is used for training anything.
Which citation styles are supported?
APA, MLA 9, Chicago (both notes-and-bibliography and author-date), Harvard, IEEE and Vancouver. References are built from publisher records via DOI, ISBN, URL or title, and the bibliography stays in your browser between visits.
What happened to the AI Detector and the AI Humanizer?
Both are shut down: the Humanizer on 22 September 2026 and the AI Detector on 5 October 2026, when we switched off the server they needed. Their pages stay up so that old links say so rather than returning an error. The records they kept for signed-in users were deleted when accounts closed on 21 October 2026.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Every tool is built to work at phone width, including file uploads.