GPT-3: How to Summarize a PDF (70 000+ Words) 📔

How to Summarize a Book or a PDF file with GPT-3 and Python

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In today's video, we're going to be showing you how to use GPT-3 to easily summarize a book or paper in PDF form.

Let's face it, sometimes we don't have the time to read a 200 page, 73,000 word document from start to finish. But with GPT-3, you can quickly and easily extract the most important information and summarize it into just 230 words.

This can be a great way to create a step by step guide, research notes, blog posts, or even mid-journey prompts.

In this video, we'll be using the book "Deep Work" by Cal Newport as an example. This book is 190 pages and 73,000 words, so it can be a daunting task to get through it all.

But with the help of GPT-3 and a Python script with the OpenAI API, we'll show you how to automate the process and make summarizing a breeze.
So if you're ready to learn how to use GPT-3 to summarize a book, let's get started!

00:00 Intro Summarize a book or pdf with GPT-3
00:17 Summarizing with GPT-3 and Python Script
04:21 Deep Work Summary with Midjourney V4

[Phyco_Smash]

This is not a how-to. It is a 'look at what I did. Become a member to actually do it'

[EnesKaraboga]

If you ask the book name and tell it to summarize it, it will summarize almost all books. I tried witt Deep Work and it worked. Prompt is 'summarize the book deep work by cal newport in 400 words'

[szilagyimiklos]

I dont think 5 minutes do it justice of how useful this is

[verence]

I made a Colab some days ago to summarize YouTube videos that works in pretty much the same way as this. Gets the YouTube audio, extracts the text with Whisper, and from then on it divides the text in chunks, summarises each one, joins all the summaries, and extracts the conclusions from the joint summaries.

I need to tweak it a bit to allow for even longer texts: sometimes the joint summaries themselves exceed 4k tokens and in that case I just crop it, but I should probably summarise the joint summary instead.

I'll definitely try the conversion from pdf to txt part to make my script more useful though!

[greenbusinessimpact]

This is exactly what I was looking for!! 🤩

[theMLhub]

Could you please give us the source code, it will help us a lot :)

[marcel]

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing! Of cource ChatGPT is able to slmmarize most of the popular books, as some have pointed out, but your approach will let it summarize any large pdf file! Thanks!

[MrMarcoify]

Is your course good for people with no experience in coding and running on a MacBook Air ?

[TheVitkuz]

Amazing use case. Thank you for sharing it

[TheFoslaUog]

This works well for a book/novel where you can live with open AI sacrificing some particular aspect of summary which can be subjective but the next challenge is to come up with intelligent solutions to extract key information from documents with sensitive data. Say a legal document/contract that is 100 pages long and it contains some information about a particular clause in different parts and pages hence will be in different chunks. Open AI could just remove the limit and make our lives more easy. 😂

[taylorroberts]

I wonder then, if these summaries can be used as the raw data for fine tuning the model....I am struggling on how I can get my raw pdf data into prompt-completion format to fine tune the AI model....

[propotkunin]

couldnt find the script for this python code anywhere. can someone help?

[michaelb]

i have my family tree and would like to use in openai but cant seem to find code to do this. Im so confused on formatting this im a beginner here and trying to learn also joined your site and sent an email there for help hope to hear from you

[ikechiude]

You’re advertising your services and not providing a solution bro.

[NFTs_In_Business]

That was flawless! Shout out to know how to leverage AI.!

[truthplease]

where can i copy the python code :) ?

[JrnTillnes]

Awesome! If my calculations are correct, it would cost you around $2 worth of tokens to do this with Davinci-003. Is that about right?

[claudiux]

Absolutely genius! Thanks for sharing.

[Narmi_production]

Hi. Where can i learn to make this script?

[calebmensah]

Hey, can you please create an in-depth video on how you created the illustrated narration story?