bookpecker

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   by bookpecker 3y ago

   That's definitely doable!
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   by bookpecker 3y ago

   pdftotext is a Linux utility to extract text from PDF files. Then you can easily cut the text file into pieces. For best summarization, it's best that the pieces overlap a bit, so that important paragraphs that lie on the boundaries ar
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   by bookpecker 3y ago

   GPT-4 turbo has a context window of 128k tokens, so you can divide every book into a few chunks for initial summarization, then merge the results for the final summary!
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   I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result(bookpecker.com)

   48 points by bookpecker 3y ago|49 comments