Hi! I’m working with long PDFs to extract text/scans into a data base but right now my problematic is that the PDFs are just too long. What would be the ideal workflow to split a PDF (from my Drive) into 5 pages PDFs to then extract the data from each and merge this data together in my SupaBase? T…

for free, you can use google docs, but its not the acutal intended use case, for something easy you can look at PDF.co

Interesting, but not sure what you mean. What would be the n8n workflow to split a pdf into chunks with google docs?

Hi @TeenTyrant , great use case — splitting long PDFs into chunks is a smart strategy for OCR or structured text extraction! :puzzle_piece: Here’s a simple step-by-step workflow in n8n to split a PDF from Google Drive into 5-page chunks, extract the content, and store it in Supabase: :brick: Ideal…

Homie if you gonna paste AI, at least dont make it obvious

You could try splitting the content. for example, name each section something like Split 1, Split 2, etc. If you’re using a vector store, this kind of structure can really help it pick things up more accurately. Working with PDFs, you can split them into chunks first. I’m pretty sure there’s eithe…

Is it not valid to write the answer and format it with chatgpt? My native language is Spanish, in my opinion I think it helps me to clarify the idea of the answer, and this is not simply copy and paste, I know what I’m saying and doing, I do not know what case they are trying to compare me with, b…

Your doing it an awful lot I’ve noticed over the last few days. Up to you, but maybe try format less gpt like ahaa :slight_smile: it’s not my call but they could ban you, 📣 We Need Your Help! (Answer & Earn) - #3 by jimvh . "We will! However, we debated if we should let it answer questions on the f…

There is also a built-in n8n node for ConvertAPI , which offers over 500 API conversion tools. Here’s a workflow you can use to split a PDF file: Don’t know why it’s not appearing correctly but it’s working [image]

I find this interesting because many of the problems here are repetitive, and I’ve noticed that we don’t bother checking to see if they’re resolved before asking. I’ve also seen that with the official documentation, most people don’t read the documentation on how to configure the nodes. If you’d a…

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are u just copy and pasting from chatgpt lol I thought from the last community stream on youtube they said they dont like this? @bartv

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