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Summarize Google Docs & PDFs with GPT-4 and Send to Slack or Email

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Created by: Krishna Sharma || triggerall

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📄 AI-Powered Document Summarizer & Notifier

This workflow monitors a Google Drive folder for new files (Google Docs or PDFs), extracts text, summarizes content with OpenAI, and sends results to Slack or Email.

🔧 How It Works

  1. Monitors a Google Drive folder for new files.
  2. Detects file type → Google Doc vs PDF.
  3. Extracts text (via Google Docs API or PDF extractor).
  4. Summarizes & analyzes content using OpenAI.
  5. Sends results to Slack and/or Email.

👤 Who Is This For?

  • Business teams → Quick digests of reports, proposals, contracts.
  • Educators / researchers → Summaries of long study materials.
  • Founders / managers → Daily summaries without opening every file.
  • Operations teams → Compliance and documentation tracking.

💡 Use Case / Problem Solved

  • Reading long documents is time-consuming.
  • Sharing key points across teams requires manual effort.
  • Important context (sentiment, action items) is often missed.

👉 This workflow solves it by auto-summarizing documents and notifying teams instantly.

⚙️ What This Workflow Does

  • Monitors Google Drive for new Google Docs or PDFs.
  • Extracts text automatically.
  • Uses OpenAI to generate:
    • Title
    • Summary
    • Key Points
    • Suggested Action Items
    • Language detection
    • Sentiment (positive, neutral, negative)
  • Pushes output to Slack channel and/or Email inbox.

🛠️ Setup Instructions

Prerequisites

Steps to Configure

  1. Connect Google Drive

    • Choose the folder you want to monitor.

  2. Set up file type routing

    • Use an IF node to split Docs vs PDFs.

  3. For Google Docs

    • Use Google Docs Get → extract text.

  4. For PDFs

    • Use Google Drive Download → Extract PDF.

  5. Send text to OpenAI

    • Connect to your OpenAI model.
    • Customize the system prompt to generate title, summary, sentiment, etc.

  6. Notify

    • Send output to Slack channel or Gmail.

  7. Save & activate your workflow.

📌 Notes

  • Adjust OpenAI prompt to suit your context.
  • For large PDFs, consider splitting into smaller chunks.