Automated PDF Summarization Workflow

Overview Most businesses are sitting on a mountain of PDFs — reports, contracts, research documents, proposals — and someone has to read through all of them. This workflow eliminates that bottleneck entirely.

How It Works The system works through a simple form submission. A user uploads a PDF, and from that point everything is automated. The workflow extracts the full text from the document, passes it to an OpenAI model with a structured summarization prompt, and logs the document title, AI-generated summary, and submission date directly into a Google Sheet. No reading, no copy-pasting, no manual entry.

Tech Stack Built in n8n using a form trigger, a PDF extraction node, an OpenAI integration, and a Google Sheets append node. The pipeline is linear, reliable, and easy to hand off to a non-technical team to operate.

The Result Teams managing high document volume can now process and catalog information in seconds instead of hours, with every summary stored in a structured format that is easy to search and reference later.