Merge PDFs, Summarize with ChatGPT, and Generate a New Summarized PDF using PDF.co and Zapier

Step 1: Open Zapier Account

• First, open your Zapier account and create a Zap.

Note: Add a trigger step so you can use the PDF.co API.

Step 2: Add PDF.co App

• After adding the trigger step, select the PDF.co app and choose PDF Merger to merge multiple PDFs into a single PDF document.

Step 3: Setup PDF Merger

Let’s set up the PDF Merger configuration.

• For the List of links to source PDFs, documents, or images field, input the links of the PDF documents you want to merge into a single PDF.
• For the Auto-convert non-PDF files field, set it to true if you will use non-PDF files.

After setting up the configuration, click the test action button.

Step 4: Test Result

• The test result was successful and merged the PDF documents into a single PDF.

Now, let’s extract the text in the merged PDF document. To do that, we will add another app.

Step 5: Add Another App

• Let’s add another app and select the PDF.co app. Then, choose the PDF to Anything Converter to convert PDF into any document.

Step 6: Setup PDF.co Configuration

Let’s set up the PDF.co Configuration.

• First, select the Plain Text option in the Output Format field.
• Next, choose the output URL from the merged PDF in the PDF URL field.
• Then, add the PDF Pages you want to extract the text.

Once you are done setting up, test the action to see the result.

Step 7: Test Action Result

• Great! We successfully extracted the merged PDF into a text format. kindly paste the output URL into your browser and copy the extracted text.

in this step, we will add the ChatGPT app to summarize the extracted text.

Step 8: Add ChatGPT App

• Let’s add another app and select ChatGPT. Then, choose the Conversation to send a chat to OpenAI and generate a completion, storing the message as you go.

Step 9: Setup ChatGPT Configuration

Let’s set up the configuration.

• In the User Message field, add the merged PDF document extracted text and a command message that the assistant will respond to.
• For the Assistant Instructions field, let’s use the default instructions You are a helpful assistant.
• For the Memory Key field, you can a unique value to allow the assistant to continue the conversation.

Now, let’s send a request to ChatGPT to summarize the extracted text.

Step 10: Summary Result

• Great! ChatGPT successfully process our request and returned a summarized text value.

In this step, we will generate a new PDF from the ChatGPT summary.

Step 11: Add Another PDF.co App

• Let’s add another app and select PDF.co. Then, choose the HTML to PDF Converter as an action event.

Step 12: Setup HTML to PDF Converter

Let’s set up the HTML to PDF Converter configuration.

• For the Input HTML or URL to convert field, select the Assistant Response Message from ChatGPT.

We will now test the action to generate a new summarized PDF.

Step 13: Conversion Result

• Great! The test was successful and returned a temporary URL. Copy the URL and paste it into your browser to view the output.

Step 14: Generated PDF Output

• Here’s the newly generated summarized PDF.