Hi! I’m new to Zapier and after many searches for answers and tutorials watched, I’m confused on how to automate putting a text output from PDF.co into a chatbot like Chatgpt/Claude. I have 2 working triggers currently:
- Google Drive’s ‘New File in Folder’ when a new PDF is added to a specific folder
- PDF.co’s ‘PDF to Anything Converter’ to convert the PDF into usable text format → the output is a s3 URL that contains the text output
The next step that I have been unsucessful in is to somehow automatically input the text output into a chatbot for its analysis.
The overarching goal is I want to send information from decks to a chatbot to summarize according to some specific parameters. Most lines of thought says the best way to do that is to transform the PDFs into text format.
However, all of the tutorials I've read and watched require a user (me) to manually copy the text output into the chatbot. Otherwise, the chatbot just says something along the lines of, “I don't see any previous output URL or text content to summarize from earlier in our conversation. This appears to be our first interaction.”
Is this process really only manually done by a human copy and pasting the output into the next step?
Can somebody point me in the right direction if I’ve gone completely off course - maybe this is not the best way to do what I want to do?
