u/Silvestre074

I need to summarize several large PDFs. My goal is just to get a brief overview of what each specific case is about.

I was thinking about using Claude, but I noticed that both Claude and ChatGPT often use external internet knowledge or extrapolate, instead of strictly sticking to the provided text. I need a tool that relies 100% and exclusively on the PDFs, without adding outside information.

Given this, is NotebookLM my best option for this task? Thanks!

I'm currently doing this:

• LM Studio running Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M locally (the "1M" version has an extended context window, useful for longer chunks). Runs its own local OpenAI-compatible server on localhost.
• AnythingLLM — tried this as a RAG/chat frontend on top of LM Studio. Works well for Q&A over documents, but it can't bulk-upload a folder with subfolders (known limitation), and its chat mode only retrieves relevant fragments per question — it doesn't "read" an entire document end to end unless you specifically use its agent-based document summarizer, which isn't practical for hundreds of files (you'd have to reference filenames one by one).
• Custom Python script — ended up being the real workhorse. It:
  • Recursively walks one or more folders (including subfolders) for PDFs.
  • Forces on-demand cloud files (OneDrive in my case) to actually download before reading, since they're often just placeholders on disk.
  • Extracts text natively first; if a PDF has no real text layer, it automatically runs OCR (PyMuPDF for rendering pages + Tesseract, with contrast/sharpening preprocessing) — but writes the OCR output to a separate new folder, never touching the original file.
  • Feeds the extracted text to the local LLM via LM Studio's API using a map-reduce approach: splits huge documents into chunks, summarizes each chunk, then recursively combines chunk-summaries into one final summary — so document length isn't limited by the model's context window.
  • Is resumable: keeps a JSONL log of what's already been processed, so you can Ctrl+C anytime and pick up later without repeating work.
  • Never modifies, renames, or duplicates original files — only ever creates new output files alongside.
• Curious what this community thinks — better local model choice for this kind of legal-document summarization task? Better OCR settings? Anyone doing something similar with a smarter architecture (e.g. skipping the naive map-reduce, batching OCR more efficiently, etc.)?

Hola necesitocomprar usdt tengo soles saben donde se puede comprar estaba pensando p2p de binance pero tambien deseo ver otras opciones

Hi everyone,

I recently cancelled my Claude Pro subscription ($20/month) for this month, so my account is currently on the free tier.

When I was on Pro, I created several Projects in (CLAUDE CO WORK) with important chat histories. Now that I'm on the free plan, the "Projects" tab is completely blurred out, and I can't click on it.

If I reactivate my Claude Pro subscription, will I get full access back to my old Projects and all the specific chats inside them? Having access to that data is super important to me.

Screenshot looks like my projects are not anymore :(

https://preview.redd.it/3my1ivfkrfah1.png?width=371&format=png&auto=webp&s=4694eaefc7023666b9380c82979ad494cd2858ff

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hola necesitocomprar usdt tengo soles saben donde se puede comprar estaba pensando p2p de binance pero tambien deseo ver otras opciones

Amigos hola, resulta que tengo como 2400 soles en cupones de tottus (tienda fisica) o para canejar en sagafabella (web) el tema es que queria canjear un celular pero ya no hay. Entonces antes que se vencan a fines de junio pues pensaba canejarlos en pedidosya pero no consumo mucho enel trabajo nos dan comida, creo que solo comprare full detergente?

Eso siempre se usa no?

Hola estoy pensando alquilar un airbnb por 6 meses, mi duda es quien paga laluz el agua? porquesiempre en mis estancias cortas de airbnb cuando alquilo un depa en airbnb el dueño pues no cobra algo adicional pero ahora que seria por 6 meses como seria (osea yo deseo quedarme en un airbnb por 6 meses pero no quien asume esos gastos extra)

Hola vi unas convocatiras de empresas para trabjar hay una itneresante pero es comercial que pide traer cartera de clientes, entonces mi duda es ahi tienes que vender si o si, tener capacidad de negociaciòn, convenimiento, crees que es una area dificl? estresante? porque si no lelgas a la meta pues no comisioasn y solo ganas el básico

Ya quenohay areas comunes para lavar caros, si o si queda llevarlo a un carwash para lavar? o como lo hacen

I am using claude thinking about switch to abacaus but i mean there is a way to test it? it sound to good to be true

Pues ahora que Keiko ganò pues el copiamiento de poderes es obvio, solole faltaba ser presidenta y tomar el poderjudicial (que ya empezó).

Realmente te queires quedar en el peru? osea a mi me gustaria emigrar llevar mis ahorros y todo e irme, porque realmente uno se siente seguro? la corrupciòn esta en todos lados, sunafil la van a desmanteler, tienes juicio penal laboral el pj ya lo estan tomando.

Realmente hasta ir donde un policia es peligroso, ahora tienen leyes a favor de ellos muy beneficiosas. Te detienen por cualquier cosa en 24 horas te liberan pero igual si los demandas te amedentran.

Otros casos es los cambios que se haran, sacaran una ley afp que perjudicarà al ciuddano, aportaremos màs incluso los recibos por honorarios.

Derechos laborales? lo dudo realmente

Antes esperabas que una clinicaprivada te de buen servicio de salud pero vieron el caso sueros medifarma? no les paso nada el congreso blindo, entonces a quien vamos a reclamar si en una clincia te pasa algo, si ellos controlan todo

realmente no me siento seguro

Hey guys, so I have an iPhone 17 Pro Max, but you can't clone apps on iOS. Sometimes I need to check my company's banking apps, so I need a second phone. I was thinking of getting a 256GB iPhone 17e and also using it to watch Netflix series from time to time. Or, I could go for a Xiaomi 15T Pro. The thing is, I'm not a fan of Xiaomi's operating system, but people say it has a better, bigger screen and all that."

Hola vi a unos influencers en tiktok instagram que dicen que hacen ventas ya sea imporanto, o trayendo iphones usados, o comprando en el peru autos usados y revendiendolos. Y al final te dicen si queires aprender a hacerlo te enseño y osea te cobran.

Entonces mi duda es, si realmente les va bien? Pues si te va bien no te pones a vender cursos o tampoco deseas que màs entren a tu negocio porque te quitan merado.

Hola vi a unos influencers en tiktok instagram que dicen que hacen ventas ya sea imporanto, o trayendo iphones usados, o comprando en el peru autos usados y revendiendolos. Y al final te dicen si queires aprender a hacerlo te enseño y osea te cobran.

Entonces mi duda es, si realmente les va bien? Pues si te va bien no te pones a vender cursos o tampoco deseas que màs entren a tu negocio porque te quitan merado.

Hello, I use Claude (the $20/month version) and I pay for the full annual package. Mmm, I saw this website, Abacus, what is it like? Does it consume less or is it more efficient? Because price-wise it looks better, but there isn't much information out there."

Ya se sabia que ciertas personas becadas de proanbec realmente se hacen pasar por pobres, peruanos que se van con beca y no regresarn pero ahora aparece el caso de un beca que recibe el dinero para su manutenciòn y al parecer no lo neceista y lo invierte, pues sus padres les dan dinero. Pronabec tuvo una idea buena, apoyar a los más necesitados pero claramente personas como el desnaturalizan pronabec

https://www.reddit.com/r/PeruFinanzas/comments/1tmah7p/que_hacer_con_10k_soles_siendo_estudiante_1000/

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I'm a 30-year-old guy, and honestly, I don't consider myself very attractive. I’ve been dealing with severe self-comparison issues for over 2 or 3 years now.

In therapy, my therapist suggested trying to "describe others without judging them." For example, if I see a guy or a girl, I should only describe their hair, their clothes, or the color of their outfit. You just describe what you see—you don't judge, you don't jump to conclusions, and you don't label them as handsome, ugly, or anything. You say absolutely nothing like that, you just describe.

However, it’s incredibly hard to maintain that mindset. Every time I open social media, it’s the same thing: attractive girls are only with attractive guys. And even when a girl isn't conventionally attractive, with the whole boom of social media, they have guys from other cities or countries sliding into their Instagram DMs. The competition just feels overwhelming now.

For those who have been through this: When does this mindset finally stop? How do you actually fix this or cope with it?

I’ve reached a point where I don’t know if I’m organizing my life or just documenting my slow descent into stress.

I’ve tried all the apps—Zenkit, Trello, etc.—but they didn't click. Now, I’ve moved everything to a massive Excel sheet, but all I see is a list that grows faster than I can check things off. I’ve categorized everything, and the sheer volume is overwhelming:

Daily/Routine: Even the small stuff, like remembering to take meds if I'm feeling sick.

Weekly/Weekends: All the errands and chores that pile up.

The "Mid-Month" Check: Paying for electricity, water, internet, and credit cards every two weeks.

Monthly: Professional tasks, like sending out those mandatory end-of-month reports.

Annual/Long-term: Essential things like renewing car insurance.

The "Opportunity" List: Tasks that only happen when a specific window opens, like checking for PhD scholarship applications at universities like Yale.

It’s all there. Every time I think of something new, I add it. But looking at this giant Excel sheet every day makes me feel more stressed than if I had just forgotten the tasks. It’s like I’m a slave to the spreadsheet.

Does anyone actually find these hyper-detailed lists helpful? Or is there a point where "being organized" just becomes a different form of mental exhaustion? If you’ve been in this "Excel hell," how did you simplify it without feeling like you were going to let something important (like a bill or a deadline) slip through the cracks?

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Invierto por medio de hapi consultas al mp