Utilizing Leo to spice up productiveness—Courageous’s privacy-preserving AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
Final September, we released a roadmap of improvements for Leo, Courageous’s privacy-preserving AI assistant constructed proper into the browser.
Right now, we’re excited to announce we’ve accomplished one other piece of the roadmap: Leo can now work together with PDFs and Google Drive recordsdata. By seamlessly integrating with these common productiveness apps and doc sorts, Leo allows customers to avoid wasting time and achieve extra in school and work, whereas preserving person privateness.
How we constructed doc help
Courageous’s built-in AI assistant Leo has just lately gained new capabilities for understanding learn how to assist customers whereas utilizing web-based instruments and workflows. Particularly:
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By utilizing the accessibility tree in a PDF’s metadata, Leo can perceive the underlying semantic construction of PDF paperwork.
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By leveraging a method known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on canvas-rendered apps, Leo can use a picture of a web page to extract textual content in Google Docs and Google Sheets.
In each circumstances, Leo can supply insights and options for customers working with many alternative productiveness functions, whether or not in school or at work.
Use circumstances for Leo’s doc integrations
With this novel use of the accessibility tree, OCR, and different strategies, Leo will help with a number of necessary use circumstances. These embrace:
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PDFs: Leo can extract subjects and information deep inside PDF paperwork. This will help with understanding analysis papers, getting ready evaluation from reviews, discovering particulars in a technical specification doc, and extra.
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Google Docs: While you’re enhancing a Google Doc, Leo can suggest related phrases or writing kinds, and even evaluation the doc as a complete.
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Google Sheets: Leo can analyze tables and information in a Google Sheet, and even counsel formulation.
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Slack workspaces: Leo can spotlight key dialogue factors from a thread in a Slack workspace, extracting the thread’s important factors whereas saving you the time of studying the complete thread historical past.
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YouTube: Leo can produce video transcripts from lessons, trade occasions, and influencer movies. These transcripts can then be summarized for helpful particulars talked about within the video, and permit the person to ask Leo follow-up questions in regards to the video or the transcript.
Courageous Leo and unparalleled privateness
As a privacy-first firm, Courageous is devoted to releasing main options to common Net instruments that additionally shield person information and anonymity. Leo—and its doc integrations—isn’t any completely different. That is notably related as work and college paperwork might comprise delicate data:
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Reverse proxy: All requests are proxied by way of an anonymization server so the request and user-address can’t be linked. Courageous can not affiliate the person request with their IP tackle.
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Discarding of responses: Conversations usually are not continued on Courageous’s servers. Responses from Leo are discarded after they’re generated, and never used for mannequin coaching. We don’t gather identifiers akin to your IP Tackle that may be linked to you. No private information is retained by the AI mannequin or any Third-party mannequin suppliers.
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No login or account required for entry: Customers don’t have to create a Courageous account to make use of Leo.
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Unlinkable subscription: For those who join Leo Premium, you’re issued unlinkable tokens that validate your subscription when utilizing Leo. Which means Courageous can by no means join your buy particulars together with your utilization of the product, an additional step that ensures your exercise is personal to you and solely you. The e-mail you used to create your account is unlinkable to your day-to-day use of Leo, making this a uniquely personal credentialing expertise.
Simply as Leo makes use of these strategies to protect your privateness as you chat, it presents the identical protections when Leo helps you analyze paperwork and different recordsdata.
The right way to use Leo for PDFs and Google Drive recordsdata
Leo’s help for PDFs, Google Docs, and Google Sheets is accessible now for all Courageous desktop customers on model 1.63 or increased.
To strive it out, merely open a PDF, Google Doc, or Google Sheet in a tab within the Courageous browser. Then click on the within the sidebar, and begin asking Leo questions in regards to the file.
Don’t have Leo within the sidebar but? Simply click on Settings, then click on Leo, and toggle on the Present Leo icon within the sidebar possibility.
What’s subsequent for Leo and doc / file help?
Leo will quickly help different paperwork and file sorts. For instance, Leo will combine with GitHub, permitting code reviewers to summarize the aim and affect of pull requests by analyzing code adjustments with out line-by-line inspection. Maintain an eye fixed out for bulletins about GitHub help, and for much more doc and file integrations.
From the start, we noticed Leo as excess of an AI chatbot (although it could actually deal with real-time, contextual chats with ease). Reasonably, we noticed Leo as a real good assistant that would show you how to have interaction with the functions you employ on daily basis, that will help you be taught, work, and plan extra effectively. By surfacing insights from inside PDFs, suggesting textual content for Google Docs, writing formulation for Google Sheets, summarizing YouTube movies, analyzing code in GitHub (and extra), Leo saves you time and makes you extra environment friendly and productive.