Brave browser brings new AI reading features to its privacy-focused chatbot

The chatbot race is moving further into the land of digital documents.

The privacy-focused browser Brave has added more ways for its AI assistant “Leo” to help users read PDFs, analyze Google Drive files and transcribe YouTube videos. Other features include analyzing code on GitHub and summarizing messages on Slack.

When reading pages in Google Docs and Google Sheets, Brave uses a technique called optical character recognition, which allows Leo to see whatever a user sees. For PDFs, it uses metadata to understand the semantic structure based on a file’s accessibility tree, which often are used by screen readers in devices to assist people with disabilities. 

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