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Chat with PDF docs using AI (quoting sources)

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This workflow allows you to ask questions about a PDF document. The answers are provided by an AI model of your choice, and the answer includes a citation pointing to the information it used. You can use n8n’s built-in chat interface to ask the questions, or you could customise this workflow to use another one (e.g. Slack, Teams, etc.) Example The workflow is set up with the Bitcoin whitepaper. So you could ask things like: Question: “Which email provider does the creator of Bitcoin use?“ Answer

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Chat with PDF docs using AI (quoting sources) is a ready-made n8n workflow you import as a workflow JSON file — no build required. It connects Slack, OpenAI. It's free to download. Follow the 5-step import below to go live in minutes.

Platform
n8n
Connects
Slack, OpenAI
Modules
16
Price
Free
Version
v1.0
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About this workflow

This workflow allows you to ask questions about a PDF document. The answers are provided by an AI model of your choice, and the answer includes a citation pointing to the information it used. You can use n8n’s built-in chat interface to ask the questions, or you could customise this workflow to use another one (e.g. Slack, Teams, etc.) Example The workflow is set up with the Bitcoin whitepaper. So you could ask things like: Question: “Which email provider does the creator of Bitcoin use?“ Answer: “GMX [Bitcoin whitepaper.pdf, lines 1-35]” Requirements 1. A Pinecone account (they have a free tier at the time of writing that is easily enough for this workflow) 2. Access to a large language model (e.g. an OpenAI account) Customizing this workflow The workflow only reads in one document, but you could customise it to read in all the documents in a folder (or more). The workflow is set up to use GPT 3.5, but you could swap that out for any other model (including self-hosted ones).

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    Download the workflow JSON file after purchase.

  2. 2

    Open n8n → click the menu → Import from File.

  3. 3

    Select the downloaded JSON and import.

  4. 4

    Set up credentials for each node that requires them.

  5. 5

    Click Execute Workflow to test, then activate.

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