[Universal Summarizer] Many files fail to summarize

keyes

Steps to reproduce:
Try to summarize a file, like: https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf or https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/G481GD/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV5640294932.mp3?updated=1666033588

Expected behavior:
File will fail to summarize.

Debug info:
Firefox + Chrome in multiple regions.

Returns:

Sorry, a problem occurred while processing your request. Please try again later.

But always fails again later.

z64

Hi @keyes ,

With the first URL, I currently get the following error:

We are sorry, we were not able to process this. (Input content was too short)

Upon further investigation, it appears to be because the PDF has no embedded text - it is a bunch of scanned images. We currently do not do OCR, so we can't support summarizing these kinds of PDFs at the moment.

The second URL is because we have temporarily suspended audio extraction capabilities - we are rolling out an update soon to improve the error message here.

keyes

z64

The second URL is because we have temporarily suspended audio extraction capabilities

Thanks for the response. Would you mind answering if I asked why? This function is something quite unique among other LLM services. If it had the transcription feature @Grooty asked for, it would be even more powerful.

z64

The second URL is because we have temporarily suspended audio extraction capabilities - we are rolling out an update soon to improve the error message here.

This is now deployed. We will update again once we have restored this feature.

Grooty

z64 have you thought about making a (maybe paid or free for Ultimate subscribers) version of Universal Summarizer that will auto-transcribe videos and podcastsand do OCR on pdf, etc?

Vlad

keyes We are transitioning into a new backend for this.

keyes

Vlad Understood! Looking forward to when this feature comes back.

z64

Hi keyes , this should now be available again. We have also launched OCR support!

keyes

z64 Awesome! I don't have that many PDFs to summarize but I tried out the Lean Software one and it seems to work well!

This isn't a new thing, but audio files sometimes take a while to summarize. I tried this:

https://2.gum.fm/op3.dev/e/pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.transistor.fm/a9380007/b2038ace.mp3

And get:

No summary available at this moment, please try again later.

The summary is usually available ~10 minutes later.

Vlad

keyes Can you open a new bug report for this so we can investigate.