Use Google’s large language models (LLMs), generative AI, and Google Cloud services to summarize documents and text.
New customers get up to $300 in free credits to try Vertex AI and other Google Cloud products.
New customers get up to $300 in free credits on signup to apply towards a document summarizing solution.
Overview
Put simply, AI summarization is the use of AI technologies to distill text, documents, or content into a short and easily digestible format. For example, AI summarization can use natural language processing or understanding to condense a long PDF and restate its most important takeaways in just a few sentences.
The best AI for summarization varies depending on your goals. Google's Gemini can help you summarize text, code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, and more for personal use. For more advanced summarization, including for research and business intelligence purposes, the Vertex AI PaLM API can extract a summary of the most important information from text using summarization prompts.
Google Cloud's Document AI uses generative AI to easily generate customizable (length and other variables can be changed based on preferences) summaries for documents. And with Document AI Warehouse, users can get answers to natural language questions about their documents.
The benefits of AI summarization range from cost savings to improved accessibility to information. AI summarization can help businesses and organizations save time and money when producing research, business intelligence, or insights. AI-powered summarization can extract key information from news articles, research, legal and financial documents, technical literature, and even customer feedback. Summartization, then, means more time acting on information instead of sifting through it.
There are a number of challenges associated with AI summarization, mostly the use of immature technology or improperly-tuned AI. AI summarization machine learning (ML) models can sometimes lack context, leading to uninformative summaries. Summarizations can also be biased, depending on the AI used and how it was trained, resulting in inaccurate or factually incorrect results. But with the proper AI, ML training, and services in place many of these issues can be minimized or potentially avoided.
How It Works
AI summarization uses machine learning (ML) models to generate a concise synopsis from text, documents, etc. There are two primary types of AI summarization: extractive and abstractive. Extractive summarization leverages statistical methods to identify sentences that are most likely to be important. Abstractive summarization generates new sentences that summarize the main points of the original text.
Common Uses
Launch a Google-recommended, preconfigured solution that uses generative AI to quickly extract text and summarize large documents.
Launch a Google-recommended, preconfigured solution that uses generative AI to quickly extract text and summarize large documents.
In this guide, you'll create a document summarizer processor, upload a sample document for processing, and create a custom processor version to adjust the summary structure. The guide will also cover how to enable Document AI in a Google Cloud project and use the document summarizer.
In this guide, you'll create a document summarizer processor, upload a sample document for processing, and create a custom processor version to adjust the summary structure. The guide will also cover how to enable Document AI in a Google Cloud project and use the document summarizer.
This code sample lets you summarize text content using a publisher text model using Vertex AI. Sample code is viewable in Google Cloud documentation and on GitHub.
This code sample lets you summarize text content using a publisher text model using Vertex AI. Sample code is viewable in Google Cloud documentation and on GitHub.