Creating a GenAI Document Summarization Workflow in ColdFusion

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So this post comes from – I’m mostly sure – me forgetting to show a simple, but powerful demo at my presentation recently at the ColdFusion Summit. It’s nice and simple, but pretty darn useful so I decided to write a quick blog post about it and highlight the code. What’s a Document Workflow? Simply put, a document workflow is any process you would use to handle incoming documents. As an example, and one I’ve built many times over the past few years, you can use a workflow to convert all your incoming documents into PDF for easier handling. pdfRest has APIs for this and I’ll likely share a demo of them soon. (ColdFusion itself can convert HTML, PPTX,... more →
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Building a Document Q&A System with Google Gemini

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Document summarization is a powerful and pretty darn useful feature of generative AI, but a proper "question and answer" system can really enable users to interact with a document. This is why you see various document viewing apps, like Acrobat, adding these features to their programs. I thought I’d take a look at building such a system via a simple web app to see how difficult it would be, and honestly, it wasn’t that bad. Having this in your own web app, versus an external vendor, gives you more control over the experience as well. Here’s what I built. The Stack The web app lets you drag and drop a PDF into the page, it then renders a preview of the PDF on the left... more →
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Using AI and PDF Services to Automate Document Summaries

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I first discovered Diffbot way back in 2021 when I built a demo of their APIs for the Adobe Developer blog ("Natural Language Processing, Adobe PDF Extract, and Deep PDF Intelligence"). At that time, I was impressed with how easy Diffbot’s API was and also how quickly it responded. I had not looked at their API in a while, but a few days ago they announced new support for summarizing text. I thought this would be a great thing to combine with the Adobe PDF Extract API. Here’s what I found. First off, if you want to try this yourself, you’ll need: Adobe PDF Services credentials. These are free and you get 500 transactions per month for free. For folks who may not know,... more →
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