SmartPDF

Instantly summarize and section your PDFs with AI. Powered by DeepSeek V4 Flash on Together AI.

Tech stack

• Together AI for inference
• DeepSeek V4 Flash for PDF summaries
• Next.js with Tailwind & TypeScript
• Prisma ORM with Neon (Postgres)
• Braintrust for privacy-safe inference observability
• Plausible for analytics
• Direct browser-to-S3 presigned uploads for PDF storage

Cloning & running

1. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/Nutlope/smartpdfs
2. Create a .env file and add your environment variables (see .example.env):
3. TOGETHER_API_KEY=
4. BRAINTRUST_API_KEY= (optional, for observability)
5. BRAINTRUST_PROJECT=smartpdfs
6. DATABASE_URL=
7. S3_UPLOAD_KEY=
8. S3_UPLOAD_SECRET=
9. S3_UPLOAD_BUCKET=
10. S3_UPLOAD_REGION=us-east-1
11. Run pnpm install to install dependencies
12. Run pnpm prisma generate to generate the Prisma client
13. Run pnpm dev to start the development server

Roadmap

• [ ] Add some rate limiting by IP address
• [ ] Integrate OCR for image parsing in PDFs
• [ ] Add a bit more polish (make the link icon nicer) & add a "powered by Together" sign
• [ ] Implement additional revision steps for improved summaries
• [ ] Add a demo PDF for new users to be able to see it in action
• [ ] Add feedback system with thumbs up/down feature