pdf-summarizer-alfred
Get summaries of your PDFs via ChatPDF.
Science Score: 54.0%
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Repository
Get summaries of your PDFs via ChatPDF.
Basic Info
Statistics
- Stars: 21
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
- Releases: 6
Topics
Metadata Files
README.md
PDF summarizer for Alfred
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.
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:

[!NOTE] Advanced Users: Instead of entering the API key directly, you can also enter
.zshenvinto the API key field. The workflow then uses the key exported asCHATPDF_API_KEYin your.zshenv.
Usage
Use the Universal Action or the hotkey while having selected a PDF file in Finder.
Recommended Citation
Please cite this software project as (APA):
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Grieser, C. (2023). PDF summarizer for Alfred [Computer software].
https://github.com/chrisgrieser/pdf-summarizer-alfred
For other citation styles, use the following metadata: Citation File Format
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.
Owner
- Name: Chris Grieser
- Login: chrisgrieser
- Kind: user
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Company: Technical University of Berlin
- Website: https://chris-grieser.de/
- Repositories: 189
- Profile: https://github.com/chrisgrieser
Researcher in sociology & software developer
Citation (CITATION.bib)
@software{Grieser2023d,
title = {{PDF summarizer for Alfred}},
author = {Christopher Grieser},
year = 2023,
keywords = {pdf summarizer, chatpdf},
url = {https://github.com/chrisgrieser/pdf-summarizer-alfred}
}
GitHub Events
Total
- Watch event: 3
- Delete event: 3
- Push event: 26
- Pull request event: 6
- Create event: 4
Last Year
- Watch event: 3
- Delete event: 3
- Push event: 26
- Pull request event: 6
- Create event: 4
Committers
Last synced: 7 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Grieser | 7****r | 70 |
| dependabot[bot] | 4****] | 2 |
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 7 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 2
- Total pull requests: 2
- Average time to close issues: about 1 hour
- Average time to close pull requests: about 2 hours
- Total issue authors: 2
- Total pull request authors: 1
- Average comments per issue: 5.5
- Average comments per pull request: 0.0
- Merged pull requests: 2
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 2
Past Year
- Issues: 0
- Pull requests: 2
- Average time to close issues: N/A
- Average time to close pull requests: about 2 hours
- Issue authors: 0
- Pull request authors: 1
- Average comments per issue: 0
- Average comments per pull request: 0.0
- Merged pull requests: 2
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 2
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- secondbrain-note (1)
- jhs1965net (1)
Pull Request Authors
- dependabot[bot] (5)
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Dependencies
- actions/checkout v2 composite
- actions/create-release v1 composite
- actions/upload-release-asset v1 composite