Workflow overview
Why this workflow matters
Relevant for managed services and support workflows. Supports knowledge capture and document intelligence use cases.
📄 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.
Best fit
Categories
Services
Use cases
Need another direction?