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chrisgrieser / pdf-summarizer-alfred

Get summaries of your PDFs via ChatPDF.
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PDF summarizer for Alfred

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Get summaries of your PDFs via ChatPDF with just one hotkey.

Requires a ChatPDF API key, which is (currently) free for 5000 PDF pages / 500 requests per month.

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Installation & Setup

➡️ Download the latest release.

The workflow auto-updates via Alfred's workflow-update mechanism.

Get a ChatPDF API key:

  1. Go to https://www.chatpdf.com/
  2. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
  3. In the footer, click My Account. You are prompted to create an account if you do not have one yet.
  4. In My Account, expand the Developer settings. You can find your API key there:
how to find the API key

[!NOTE] Advanced Users: Instead of entering the API key directly, you can also enter .zshenv into the API key field. The workflow then uses the key exported as CHATPDF_API_KEY in your .zshenv.

Usage

Recommended Citation

Please cite this software project as (APA):

Grieser, C. (2023). PDF summarizer for Alfred [Computer software]. 
https://github.com/chrisgrieser/pdf-summarizer-alfred

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Credits

In my day job, I am a sociologist studying the social mechanisms underlying the digital economy. For my PhD project, I investigate the governance of the app economy and how software ecosystems manage the tension between innovation and compatibility. If you are interested in this subject, feel free to get in touch.

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