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PDF Summarizer

Beginner

1–2 days · 4 milestones

Upload any PDF and get a structured summary — key points, section breakdown, and a one-paragraph abstract — using an LLM.

Difficulty

Beginner

Duration

1–2 days

Milestones

4 steps

Interview Qs

3 questions

🛠 Tech stack

PythonPyPDF2 or pdfplumberClaude / OpenAI APIStreamlit

✅ Prerequisites

  • Basic Python
  • File I/O

Step-by-step milestones

1

Extract text from PDF

Use PyPDF2 or pdfplumber to get raw text.

2

Chunk the text

Split long documents to fit within context windows.

3

Summarize with LLM

Send chunks to the LLM and merge summaries.

4

Build upload UI

Create a Streamlit interface for file upload and display.

Skills you'll build

PDF parsingLLM APIPrompt EngineeringText chunking

📝 Interview questions you'll face

  • 1.How do you handle PDFs larger than the context window?
  • 2.What chunking strategy did you choose?
  • 3.How would you evaluate summary quality?

🌟 Portfolio guidance

Add sample PDFs in your repo and show before/after comparison. Mention chunking strategy in README.