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AI Document Summarizer with Ollama

Eliminate document reading fatigue. Drop any PDF, DOCX, or text file into a monitored folder and this workflow extracts the text, sends it to your local Ollama instance (hermes3, mistral, llama3, or any model), generates a concise summary with key points and action items, emails the summary to you, and saves both the original and summary to an output folder. Fully local — no data leaves your machine. Perfect for research papers, contracts, meeting notes, and long reports.

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How It Works

1Watch

Monitors a folder for new PDF, DOCX, or TXT files

2Extract

Extracts full text from document using built-in parser

3Summarize

Sends to Ollama with optimized prompt for concise summaries

4Deliver

Emails summary + saves to output/originals/ and output/summaries/

📋 Prerequisites

  • •Local Ollama instance running (e.g., hermes3:8b, mistral, llama3)
  • •File system access (local folder or network share)
  • •n8n instance with file system access
  • •Email configuration (Gmail/SMTP)

🎁 What You Get

  • ✓Importable n8n workflow JSON file
  • ✓File watcher trigger configuration
  • ✓PDF/DOCX/TXT text extraction
  • ✓Ollama API prompt template for summarization
  • ✓Email delivery with summary
  • ✓Organized output folder structure

📖 Setup Guide

## Setup Guide 1. **Watch File node**: Monitor input folder (e.g., ~/Documents/to-summarize/) for new files (.pdf, .docx, .txt) 2. **Extract from File node**: Convert PDF to text (or DOCX/TXT passthrough) 3. **Function node**: Trim text to model's context window (~8000 chars for hermes3:8b) 4. **HTTP Request node (Ollama)**: POST to http://localhost:11434/api/generate with summarization prompt 5. **Function node**: Parse Ollama JSON response, extract summary text 6. **Gmail node**: Email summary with original filename and character count 7. **Move File node**: Move original to output/originals/, write summary to output/summaries/ > 💡 **Pro tip**: Customize the prompt per document type — use "Extract key legal obligations" for contracts, "Identify methodology and findings" for research papers, "List action items and decisions" for meeting notes.

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