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[sleek agate]

I am looking help. I want a program that will review a PDF and i can ask it to create questions and answers. I am new at python thanks again.

[urban marsh]

@sleek agate

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[jovial steeple]

What do you mean by "review a PDF"?

[sleek agate]

I want the program to be able to pull questions and answers from the text in the pdf

[light kraken]

As in, the PDF already contains questions and answers that you want to extract?

Or you want a program that generates questions and answers based on content in the pdf

[sleek agate]

I want it to generate questions and answers

[light kraken]

That's a pretty non-trivial task, but with the advent of LLMs you can probably do it

First, you need to extract the text from the PDF, depending on the PDF you might be able to use some libraries to take it straight from the file, this library looks like an okay one https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber

Alternatively you could run it through some OCR service, not sure if there are any that run locally but Google cloud has a decent one

Then you want to generate questions and answers, just feed the text of the PDF into openai with your prompt and you're done

[sleek agate]

OCR? I will look it up. I have to create questions weekly and looking for an easier way to do this while learning python

[light kraken]

OCR just means 'optical character recognition', i.e. getting text out of an image

Depending on the PDF file, it might be hard to extract text from the file directly, so you'll need something like OCR instead

[kind trellis]

It might be possible to pass the PDF file to the LLM directly, e.g. https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools/file-search/how-it-works

Also https://medium.com/@csv610/pdfassistant-a-simplified-chat-with-pdf-files-using-openai-api-7deb9cfd0865

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