How to extract insights from a PDF with AI

Today you will learn how the power of AI has revolutionized the way we can interact with online PDF and documents.

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Hello there!! 👋
Today you will learn how the power of AI has revolutionised the way we can interact with online documents.
Let’s learn 📖

Today’s Task📝

🧱 Project: Extract Insights from a PDF
⏲️ Estimated time: 30 minutes
🛠️ Tools: AskYourPDF
 

Context📄

Today you’ll learn how to surface insights from within documents using AskYourPDF. With AI, you’re now able to query documents within a familiar chat-style interface.
This dramatically speeds up the processes of research within documents. No more endless scrolling and searching!
In this lesson you’ll learn:
  • The basics of AskYourPDF
  • How to surface insights from documents through conversation

Let's Prep 🥗

What’s AskYourPDF?
AskYourPDF offers a series of AI-driven conversation solutions (web, app and plug-ins) that allow you to interact with documents.
Supported document formats include: .pdf, .txt, .ppt, .pptx, .csv, .epub and .rtf
What can you use AskYourPDF for?
This new way to have conversations with your documents can be useful for:
  • Speeding up research
  • Summarizing entire documents
  • Summarizing specific sections of documents
  • Creating a learning aid
Prepare to create!
To make your life easier when you start this lesson, it’s good to get some practical stuff out the way first. Follow these steps so you’re ready to go!
  • Find a document you'd like to query.💡Hint: Maybe you could use one of the tools you used this week to help you find a PDF to query?
  • 🚨 Important: On the free plan of AskYourPDF you can query one document per day, with a maximum of 100 pages using GPT 3.5. Full plan information can be found here.
 

Time to Cook 👩‍🍳

  1. Navigate to AskYourPDF and sign up for a free account.
  1. Upload a document and start a conversation.
  1. Use the chat interface to query your document. You can use the example questions that AskYourPDF provides if you’re not sure what to ask.
 
 
That’s a wrap, we hope you found this lesson helpful!
  • If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

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Max Haining
Max Haining

Founder of 100School.com