Open your notes (or a PDF AI tool you already have). Write a 3-line PDF AI gate: (1) the summary is a map, not the truth (2) verify the one number or claim you'll use (3) no client PII into a public chat tool. You're done when you've opened one real PDF, extracted one claim, and written the page or section you checked, in 12 words or less.
How-to · VER · VER.3
PDF / reader AI is a skim — verify the one number you will use
Doc/PDF AI summaries and extractions are drafts. Before you file, quote, or decide, open the source page and verify the one number or claim you will act on.
Worked example
Workplace AI readers — Acrobat AI, Copilot on PDF, chat-over-docs — compress long files fast. They can invent details just as fast, though. The skill isn't building your own RAG stack; it's using the summary as a map, then checking the one claim that would move money, policy, or a customer. The decision is still yours.