PDFs must be referenced as context for DinoAI to access them.
Capabilities
Example Use Cases
Summarizing Documentation
- Prompt: “Summarize the data model described in this document”
- + Add PDF as context.
- Result: A concise overview of the data structures define
Extracting Information
- Prompt: “What are the business rules for customer segmentation in this report?”
- + Add PDF as context.
- Result: Extracted business rules with page references to the original document
Best Practices
- Use specific prompts - Ask about particular topics or sections
- Combine with project files - Add relevant code files alongside the PDF
- Verify information - Always validate critical information extracted from PDFs
- Consider PDF quality - Text-based PDFs work better than scanned documents
- Add PDF guidelines - Include instructions in your .dinorules file for how DinoAI should handle information from specific PDFs, particularly for recurring reference documents