🔬 Summarize Google Docs & PDFs with GPT-4 and send to Slack or email

⚡ 580 views · 🔬 Document Extraction & Analysis

Description

📄 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

• Google Drive (OAuth2)
• Google Docs (OAuth2)
• OpenAI API Key
• Slack (OAuth2) or Gmail (OAuth2)

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.

🔗 Nodes Used

Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive Trigger, AI Agent

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup