PDF Summarizer

A Streamlit web app that summarizes PDF documents (or raw text) using the Cohere summarization API.

Features

• 📄 Upload a PDF or paste text directly
• 🧠 Summarization via Cohere's summarize endpoint
• 🧹 Built-in text cleaning (deduplication, special-character removal)
• 🎨 Custom-styled Streamlit UI

Setup

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

cp .env.example .env
# then edit .env and add your COHERE_API_KEY

Get a free Cohere API key at https://dashboard.cohere.com/api-keys

Usage

streamlit run app.py

Then open http://localhost:8501

Stack

• Python 3.9+
• Streamlit
• Cohere
• pdfplumber
• python-dotenv

License

MIT