Summarize Google Docs & PDFs with GPT-4 and send to Slack or email
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Nodes used (10)
- OpenAI Chat Model
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi - Google Drive Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.googleDriveTrigger - Google Docs
n8n-nodes-base.googleDocs - If
n8n-nodes-base.if - Edit Fields (Set)
n8n-nodes-base.set - Extract from File
n8n-nodes-base.extractFromFile - Google Drive
n8n-nodes-base.googleDrive - Slack
n8n-nodes-base.slack - Gmail
n8n-nodes-base.gmail - AI Agent
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.agent
What it does
📄 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.