I want to summarize a large pdf files approximately 200 pages using Gemma 4 E4B on LM Studio app but it cannot read the file it start reading and remained at 0% not moving and when I split the PDF files to less than 100 pages it gave me very superficial short answer not real summary
By the way I am enabling the rag tool on LM studio
Also LM studio could not handle EXCEL files
Any suggestions
The problem is the RAG tool itself: retrieval only hands the model a few chunks that match your prompt, so a summary built from them can only cover those chunks — which is why even the shorter file gave a superficial answer. Extract the text outside LM Studio instead (any PDF-to-text tool will do), split it into chunks that fit the model’s context, summarize each chunk, then summarize those summaries together — every page is read exactly once, and LM Studio never has to ingest the 200-page file at all. For Excel, export each sheet to CSV first and treat it the same way. You can check the difference with one question about the final pages: the RAG version will usually miss it, the chunked version will not.