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Exporting AI Generated Meeting Summaries

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July 12, 2024
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I am testing out the AI features for my organization and have noticed that there is no way to easily export the AI generated meeting summaries from the Zoom web interface. It is great having the ability to edit directly in the web interface, but it would be even better if it was easy to export and store these notes to our document management system when needed. Right now, all we can do is copy and paste to a word doc, which is not ideal. Am I missing something? If not, I'll submit feedback directly to Zoom. 🙂

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Best answer by MGSR

Hi @bethf

Welcome to the Zoom Community! We're glad to have you here.

As per our engineers, this is already in the making, and the estimated implementation will be later this year.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

MGSRAnswer

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Hi @bethf

Welcome to the Zoom Community! We're glad to have you here.

As per our engineers, this is already in the making, and the estimated implementation will be later this year.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

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shaunmayfield

Newcomer

I cannot understand how this was not part of the official rollout! Why even create such a useful service that is in fact not useful at all? The whole purpose of utilizing AI is to create efficiency in workflow. All this has done is force us to have to improvise in order to get any usefulness out of this service, therefore decreasing workflow efficiency. Exporting to .eml files is atrocious. For those of us who work primarily off of an iPad are now behind a paywall and three extra steps as iPad does not natively open .eml files so I have to purchase and use a third-party app or copy/paste into another app and then export to pdf or word. So now the workflow is exported to .eml, saved to Drive or locally. Then use said purchased app to navigate to Drive (or wherever), import .eml file, and then use the app to further export again to pdf or word. I really hope this oversight is fixed pronto!!!

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connective_dev

Newcomer

I'm curious if you think there's motivation for Zoom to do this. Wouldn't they want to keep us inside the walled garden of their collaboration space? I'm worried the answer may be using some 3rd-party transcription-only utility where they vendor isn't trying to insert themselves into more of my work.

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Alec_G

Newcomer

I'd like to emphasize the need for this. In addition to not being convenient, the copy and paste comes out with a strange font, and all underlined and in bold, not formatted the way it is in the Zoom Meeting summary. So, this means that storing the summary in format outside of Zoom is quite time consuming which GREATLY reduces the usefulness of this tool. If it is not solved QUICKLY i will start using Wudpecker and other summary tools.

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Melanetwork

Newcomer

We need this feather as soon as possible please

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ChicagoEric

Partner

Agreed, we're now end of October and do need this feature. Teams summaries look exactly like yours but allow for users to export and attach to a proposal, contract, statement of work, etc.. Hoping this is a priority.

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meriment

Newcomer

You could use APIs to export the chat if you don't want to copy past and edit it in a word document and export to your document management system. If you are not a developer there is a Zoom app, Salepager, that lets you export and edit the Zoom AI meeting summary.

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janiskovich

Newcomer

It's now 2025 and we still can't export the meeting summary to Word. This is desperately needed. There is an option of opening the meeting summary in a browser and then print that to a PDF. However, the PDF sets up horribly with several blank pages at the front. And, it is not editable. What we need is a simple way to download the summary from the Zoom Documents page and save it as a Word file.

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jamandh

Newcomer

We definitely need a simple way to export or download meeting summaries to Word.

My workaround right now is to print the meeting summary directly from Zoom using my browser print feature. I save or print as PDF then subsequently convert the PDF document to Word. Then I can edit the document in Word.

This is not ideal and Zoom needs to come up with a simple way to export or download meeting summaries to Word.

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JayGee

Newcomer

Considering how long it is taking to be able to download a meeting summary file, one can only conclude Zoom does not want to include this feature.

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JayGee

Newcomer

I figured out a go-around for Mac users. After a few times, this only takes a minute. I assume PCs have a similar Text Edit app.

Copy the text of the summary from the email Zoom sends.
Put the text in your TextEdit app on the Mac.
From the Format dropdown menu, select Make Rich Text (this will get rid of the weird formatting).
Copy text and drop in your word processing app.

Hope this helps until Zoom gives its users what they clearly need.

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Nedeen

Newcomer

Yes, that's a good work-around. Use the emails as the format is less wonky. I even just print my email summary now as the PDF.

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connective_dev

Newcomer

Given Zoom's rapid and assertive product push to be an all-things work platform, I can imagine they may be second-guessing whether or not they want to do this. They could view it enabling this feature as helping us work outside of Zoom, which completely sucks. My company is a looonnnggg way from moving off our long-trusted tools onto a new platform. Why not enable the feature, and then take the functionality away in the future if that's what you feel you need to do, Zoom?

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jg242

Newcomer

In Chrome (perhaps other browsers), you can select all the text and then right-click > Print and choose print to PDF you can capture a full transcript with most formatting intact. This works with Chrome on my PC.

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rkushner

Newcomer

It's unbelievable that Zoom doesn't allow users to save notes as properly formatted PDF files. Here is my work-around: After generating the notes, I copy and paste from "My Meetings" into MS Word. You have to copy the meeting title separately, and adjust the margins for the "Meeting Information" section, but it works just fine. Definitely a few extra steps that should NOT be required, but clearly Zoom has no interest in making this any easier. If you say, "create summary" after a meeting, it seems to put it into your team chat summary. From there, there are options to move to folders, an organize your meetings using the Zoom platform. Their silence on adding a feature that allows easy export is deafening - it's their ecosystem, and resistance is useless...

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