Built for researchers, instructors, and nonfiction authors who want to structure a complete book from a working title and their own source materials. Upload papers, lecture notes, or bibliographies—or import an existing draft in Word, LaTeX, Markdown, PDF, or DRM-free EPUB—to generate an AI book outline with chapter aims, section breakdowns, and chapter-to-chapter progression, then refine the table of contents before chapter drafting and exporting to Word, LaTeX, EPUB, or PDF (a paid plan is required to create a manuscript).
Start a new manuscript on a paid plan and enter the working title of your book. Upload papers (PDF), lecture notes, BibTeX or RIS reference files, Word documents, Markdown files, or TXT notes—or import an existing manuscript in Word (.docx), LaTeX (.tex or .zip), Markdown (.md), PDF (including scanned PDFs), or DRM-free EPUB (EPUB 2/3) at /books/new?mode=import—so the book outline generator can build the structure around your evidence.
The workspace drafts a structured table of contents that specifies the aim of each chapter, the sections within it, and how each chapter follows from the one before it based on the materials you provided.
Review the proposed nonfiction book outline in the workspace before any chapter prose is written. You can rename chapters and sections, change their sequence, merge or remove chapters, or add new ones until the argument holds together.
Once you confirm the table of contents, SciVolume writes the chapters in order in the background using real scholarly citations and your uploaded sources, and sends an email when the draft is ready for revision and export to Word, LaTeX, EPUB, or PDF.
Unlike a generic prompt that guesses what a book might cover, SciVolume's AI book outline draws directly from the materials you upload—whether PDF research articles, course lecture notes, BibTeX/RIS libraries, or Word, Markdown, and TXT drafts. The resulting structure reflects the actual scope of your sources.
A list of chapter titles is rarely enough to sustain a full-length book. As a table of contents generator for serious nonfiction, the workspace defines the specific aim of each chapter, breaks it into sections, and maps out how chapters connect in sequence so you can evaluate the architecture before drafting.
No prose is generated until you approve the structure. You can rename headings, reorder chapters, insert missing sections, or delete redundant ones, and when you later reorder chapters in the editor, figure, table, and equation numbering updates automatically.
If you already have a dissertation or an earlier draft in Word (.docx), LaTeX (.tex, or a multi-file .zip project with \input/\include automatically expanded and .bib references imported), Markdown (.md), PDF (direct text reading or page-by-page AI text recognition for scanned PDFs), or DRM-free EPUB (EPUB 2/3), you can import it via /books/new?mode=import (up to 60 MB per file and 3,000,000 characters per manuscript). The workspace automatically recognizes the existing table of contents and chapters and proposes a new reader-facing outline that you can revise chapter by chapter.
The outline is the first stage of a complete writing desk rather than an isolated text snippet. Confirming the outline launches background chapter drafting with citations restricted to real works in scholarly indexes and your uploaded files, followed by a citation audit and export to Word, LaTeX, EPUB, or PDF.
For researchers organizing a sustained book-length argument from empirical findings, published papers, and bibliography files, where each chapter must advance a clear thesis.
For faculty structuring a semester-long textbook around lecture notes and syllabi, with chapters arranged in pedagogical sequence before generating objectives, summaries, and exercises.
For recent PhDs importing a dissertation to strip away committee-facing scaffolding and reorganize chapters around a direct, reader-oriented book outline.
For specialists turning technical standards, case materials, or domain research into a logically ordered handbook or general-interest nonfiction manuscript.
.docx), Markdown (.md), and TXT files..docx), LaTeX (.tex, or a multi-file .zip project with \input/\include automatically expanded and .bib bibliography files automatically imported), Markdown (.md), PDF (direct text reading when a text layer is present; scanned PDFs recognized page by page by AI), and EPUB (DRM-free EPUB 2/3, split into chapters by the ebook's built-in table of contents) via /books/new?mode=import. Single files up to 60 MB and manuscripts up to 3,000,000 characters (longer works prompt for splitting); imported outlines and chapters are recognized automatically and can be adjusted when confirming the outline..docx package), LaTeX package, EPUB 3 ebook (usable for Apple Books, uploading to Kindle/KDP, etc., with figures and equations packaged with the book and inline citations linked to the back-of-book bibliography), and PDF (exported via print layout). Exporting requires a paid plan.Generating a book outline requires creating a new manuscript, which is available on paid plans (free accounts can create 0 manuscripts and are limited to reading the sample book). Monthly credits are valid for 30 days, and extra credit packs can be purchased separately.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | Monthly credits (30-day validity) | Active manuscripts | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | 0 | 0 (read sample book only) | No |
| Scholar | $20/month | $120/year | 500 | 1 | Yes |
| Pro | $50/month | $300/year | 2,000 | 5 | Yes |
| Studio | $150/month | $900/year | 7,000 | 20 | Yes |
Credit rules and estimation example:
No. In SciVolume, generating an outline is the first stage of creating a book manuscript, which requires a paid plan (starting with Scholar at $20/month or $120/year). The Free plan has a limit of 0 active manuscripts and only allows reading the public sample book at /demo without logging in.
For each chapter, the workspace generates the chapter title, the specific aim of the chapter, its internal sections, and how the chapters connect in sequence from beginning to end.
Yes. When creating a manuscript, you can upload PDF papers, lecture notes, BibTeX/RIS bibliography files, Word documents, Markdown files, or TXT notes. The outline is drafted with direct reference to the materials you provide.
Yes. Before confirming the outline, you can rename chapters and sections, reorder them, add new chapters, or remove chapters you do not need. Chapter drafting only begins after you confirm the outline.
Yes. You can import a dissertation in Word (.docx), LaTeX (.tex, or a multi-file .zip project with \input/\include expanded and .bib references imported), Markdown (.md), PDF (including scanned PDFs recognized page by page by AI), or DRM-free EPUB (EPUB 2/3) via /books/new?mode=import (up to 60 MB per file and 3,000,000 characters per manuscript). SciVolume automatically recognizes the existing structure and proposes a new outline suited for book readers, which you can adjust before rewriting chapter by chapter and exporting to Word, LaTeX, EPUB, or PDF (note that PDF headers/footers, footnotes, images, and complex equations may need cleanup after import, and PDF/EPUB images need to be added back in the editor).
It is designed exclusively for serious nonfiction: scholarly monographs, university textbooks, professional and industry handbooks, popular science, and dissertations turned into books. It is not designed for fiction or children's books.
All text generation—including outlines, glossaries, and chapters—is billed at 10 credits per 1,000 model-generated characters. As an estimate based on this rule rather than a quote, 100,000 characters of generated text across an outline and manuscript uses about 1,000 credits. Scholar includes 500 monthly credits, Pro includes 2,000, and Studio includes 7,000, with top-up credit packs available.
Start a manuscript on a paid plan to draft and refine your book outline, or read the public sample book first with no account required.