The OnlyOffice Desktop Editors make for an outstanding MS Office alternative. With this application, you can either work locally or connect it to a cloud instance (self-hosted or hosted by a third party) and work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or PDF forms. OnlyOffice Document Editors is also compatible with MS Office documents and Open Document Format files (such as those from LibreOffice).
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With the latest release of OnlyOffice, the team has added the ability to integrate AI for queries, summaries, and translations. The feature works seamlessly, but you have to manually configure the AI model of your choice. OnlyOffice Desktop Editors support the following AI models:
- OpenAI
- Together AI
- Mistral
- GPT4ALL
I want to walk you through the process of adding AI to the OnlyOffice Desktop Editors.
How to add an AI model to OnlyOffice Desktop Editors
What you'll need: For this, you'll need two things: a running instance of the new version of OnlyOffice Desktop Editors (at least version 8.2.2.22, which can be installed on Linux, MacOS, and Windows), a valid account for one of the above AI models, and an API key from the AI model you've chosen.
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How you access your API key will depend on the model you've chosen. For example, with Mistral, you generate an API key from the API key section on the left sidebar. With the free account of Mistral, you can create up to 10 API keys. You only need one.
Let's get this added.
You can add as many plugins as you need, but you'll at least need.
Viola! The AI tab has appeared.
You can add as many AI models as neccessary.
Before you add the model, you'll need to generate an API key from your AI account.
Once you've taken care of that, restart the app again. When you create a new document this time, you'll see new icons for the AI feature (such as Ask AI, Summarization, and Translation). You can now start using AI within the OnlyOffice Desktop Editors app. The AI addition is straightforward, so you shouldn't have any problems getting up to speed with its usage.