Transform Press Releases (PDF/Word) to Polished Articles via Gmail & OpenAI

This n8n workflow streamlines journalism and editing by triggering on Gmail emails containing press releases from various sources like governments or companies. It filters attachments to retain only PDF and Word files, discarding others, then branches based on content: processes inline email text if no attachments, extracts text from PDFs using a dedicated extractor, or fetches Word content via HTTP request.

The extracted press release is fed to an OpenAI AI agent that transforms it into a structured, polished article or blog post using predefined prompts. A secondary AI step generates a self-assessment, comparing input and output for quality, accuracy, and fidelity, providing valuable feedback.

Finally, it crafts a reply email to the original sender including the source material, the new article draft, and the AI evaluation. Benefits include massive time savings for editors, reduced manual processing, and quality assurance via AI review. Ideal for newsrooms, PR teams, content marketers handling high volumes of releases, enabling quick draft generation for review and publication.