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What is the best AI for summarizing long documents?

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Ive been using Claude and ChatGPT for coding tasks for a while now and theyve always been solid for snippets, but lately my workflow has changed. Im currently working on a massive project for my firm here in Chicago that involves digesting around 50 to 60 legal PDFs a day, each one being like 50 plus pages of dense jargon. I thought I could just dump them into a custom GPT but the context window management has been a nightmare and it keeps hallucinating details or skipping entire sections of the exhibits. I dont have a huge budget for some enterprise-grade software, maybe like 50 bucks a month max, but I need something that actually keeps the citations accurate because if I miss a clause in these contracts my boss is gonna kill me. I tried playing around with NotebookLM recently and it seems better at grounding the answers in the source material, but the formatting options for the output summary are kinda limited for what I need to paste into my final reports. Has anyone found a tool that handles these massive batch document summaries without losing the plot? Like, is there something better for actual document processing that doesnt hallucinate half the definitions? I need to get this sorted by Friday because the workload is only getting heavier and I am losing my mind copy-pasting sections manually...


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> I need something that actually keeps the citations accurate In my experience, sticking to Google NotebookLM for the heavy lifting is your best bet, but you should feed it through Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet for the actual synthesis. Claude handles complex document structures way better than GPT models do. Just chunk the PDFs first. Dont dump everything at once or you'll get garbage output. Keep it modular.


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Honestly, dealing with that many dense contracts sounds like a total nightmare, I feel for you. If you are struggling with hallucinations and formatting, have you looked into Perplexity AI Pro? It is pretty solid for grounding answers in actual search results and specific files, plus it is right around that 20 dollar mark so it fits your budget perfectly. Before I suggest a specific workflow, are you usually looking for a table-based summary or more of a narrative brief for these reports? Knowing if you need the data pulled into a specific template would help me point you toward the right tool. Sometimes using a dedicated tool like Adobe Acrobat Pro DC alongside the AI for the initial OCR cleanup makes a huge difference in how the LLMs actually read those messy legal scans.


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100% agree


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Man I wish I found this thread sooner. Would have saved me so much hassle.


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