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TL;DR
- Google is working on bringing automatic PDF summaries to Google Drive’s PDF viewer on Android.
- The summary will appear at the top of the document pane without user interaction.
- Users can provide feedback on summaries and interact with Gemini for more answers.
An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release.
Google Drive v2.25.280 includes code for automatically generating summaries of uploaded PDF files. We managed to activate the feature to give you an early look:
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In future versions of Google Drive, users will not have to click the “Summarize this file” button when viewing a PDF to get its summary. As you can see in the first screenshots, the summary will automatically be presented at the top of the preview pane. Users will be able to like and dislike the summary to give feedback on the AI’s performance, and they will likely be able to tap on the “Ask Gemini” button to open the usual Gemini bottom sheet, where they can ask more questions around the PDF.
Note that the summary currently visible is placeholder text, as the feature isn’t fully functional just yet. We expect Google to fix the issue whenever they roll out the feature to end users.