📄 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
- Monitors a Google Drive folder for new files.
- Detects file type → Google Doc vs PDF.
- Extracts text (via Google Docs API or PDF extractor).
- Summarizes & analyzes content using OpenAI.
- 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
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Connect Google Drive
- Choose the folder you want to monitor.
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Set up file type routing
- Use an
IF node to split Docs vs PDFs.
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For Google Docs
- Use Google Docs Get → extract text.
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For PDFs
- Use Google Drive Download → Extract PDF.
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Send text to OpenAI
- Connect to your OpenAI model.
- Customize the system prompt to generate title, summary, sentiment, etc.
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Notify
- Send output to Slack channel or Gmail.
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Save & activate your workflow.
📌 Notes
- Adjust OpenAI prompt to suit your context.
- For large PDFs, consider splitting into smaller chunks.
