---
title: "How to Summarize Large Documents with LangChain and OpenAI"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-summarize-large-documents-with-langchain-and-openai-uod6syz0q
source_url: https://thenewstack.io/how-to-summarize-large-documents-with-langchain-and-openai/
type: article
source: "The New Stack"
published: 2024-04-22T16:47:34.897Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:13:33.132Z
tags: ["openai", "langchain", "unsupervised-learning"]
reading_time: 13
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How to Summarize Large Documents with LangChain and OpenAI

**[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 13 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn how to summarize large documents using LangChain and OpenAI with the use of large language models. Discover the limitations of large document summarization, the process of summarizing large documents using K-means clustering, and how to set up the environment and pre-process the text.

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Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#langchain](https://daily.dev/tags/langchain), [#unsupervised-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/unsupervised-learning)

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