Revolutionize How You Handle PDFs: Use AI for Instant Summaries, Audio, and Q&A — Save Hours Today!

Author(s): Mukundan Sankar

Originally published on Towards AI.

How AI Saved Me Hours: Turning Long PDF Documents Into Quick Summaries, Audio, and Instant Q&A

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Before and after of using AI for PDFs. On the left, a stressed person manually reads a long document. On the right, the same person is relaxed, using AI to summarize, convert to audio, and multitask efficiently. generated from ChatGPT by the Author

We’ve all been there: stuck with a hefty PDF that needs our attention, but the sheer number of pages feels overwhelming. It could be a dense research paper or a business report — either way, manually extracting the key points is not only tedious but time-consuming. What if I told you there’s a faster way to deal with this? One that doesn’t involve endless scrolling and highlighting?

That’s where AI comes in. I’ve been experimenting with some automation tools, and I wanted to share how I managed to turn this into something you can use to speed up your workflow. In this post, I’ll break down how I built a tool that can summarize PDFs, convert them into audio (so you can listen on the go!), and even generate a Q&A session from the content. It’s a bit like having your own research assistant.

Here’s how I built it… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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