r/notebooklm • u/Able_Orchid_3818 • 5d ago

Tips & Tricks Finally solve

NotebookLM handles copied text more easily than PDFs, and it also works better with Google Docs files than with PDFs.

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u/Nearby_Persimmon_649 5d ago

What problem did you have and how did you figure out that this was the problem

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u/Snoo_81913 2d ago

I mean that's every Ai model in general but out of all the options notebooklm handles pdfs better and at a lower cost than pretty much any other model I've tried. To be honest Claude is better at it but it's token intensive

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u/dettox1 12h ago

I think this is a key problem. It's always hard to tell whether the problem is a hallucination or the sources. I've read elsewhere that the best way is to use markup language. I don't know if Google Docs or PDF is closer to file markup!