Summarize Google Docs & PDFs with GPT-4 and Send to Slack or Email

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

Steps to Configure

Connect Google Drive
Choose the folder you want to monitor.

Set up file type routing
Use an IF node to split Docs vs PDFs.

For Google Docs
Use Google Docs Get → extract text.

For PDFs
Use Google Drive Download → Extract PDF.

Send text to OpenAI
Connect to your OpenAI model.
Customize the system prompt to generate title, summary, sentiment, etc.

Notify
Send output to Slack channel or Gmail.

Save & activate your workflow.

📌 Notes
Adjust OpenAI prompt to suit your context.
For large PDFs, consider splitting into smaller chunks.