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Review of ChatPDF Service for Working with PDF Documents

ChatPDF allows you to get a summary of PDF documents and "talk" to them by asking questions.

📚 I want to tell you about the service https://www.chatpdf.com/. Recently, I launched a free GPT-4 bot @rvnikita_public that can summarize large texts and websites. However, it currently cannot work with PDF documents. This is where ChatPDF comes to the rescue.

ChatPDF allows you not only to get a summary of PDF documents but also to "talk" to them by asking various questions, such as:

- What is the main essence of the document?
- Is there any code in this document?
- Explain concept X so that a 7-year-old can understand.
- Point out critical moments in the PDF.

The service works as follows:

- The document is split into paragraphs.
- An embedding vector is calculated for each paragraph.
- An embedding vector for your question is calculated, and the most relevant paragraph is found.
- The question and the relevant paragraph are sent to ChatGPT.
- The received answer is returned to you.

Thus, the ChatPDF service becomes an excellent assistant for working with PDF documents, allowing you to quickly and easily find answers to your questions of interest.

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