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 **General errors**
 
 - Make sure you're running the latest Node version. Run `node -v`
+- Try a different PDF or convert your PDF to text first. It's possible your PDF is corrupted, scanned, or requires OCR to convert to text.
+- `Console.log` the `env` variables and make sure they are exposed.
 - Make sure you're using the same versions of LangChain and Pinecone as this repo.
 - Check that you've created an `.env` file that contains your valid (and working) API keys, environment and index name.
 - If you change `modelName` in `OpenAIChat` note that the correct name of the alternative model is `gpt-3.5-turbo`
 - Make sure you have access to `gpt-4` if you decide to use. Test your openAI keys outside the repo and make sure it works and that you have enough API credits.
 - Your pdf file is corrupted and cannot be parsed.
+- Check that you don't have multiple OPENAPI keys in your global environment. If you do, the local `env` file from the project will be overwritten by systems `env` variable.
+- Try to hard code your API keys into the `process.env` variables.
+- 
 
 **Pinecone errors**
 
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 - Check that you've set the vector dimensions to `1536`.
 - Make sure your pinecone namespace is in lowercase.
 - Pinecone indexes of users on the Starter(free) plan are deleted after 7 days of inactivity. To prevent this, send an API request to Pinecone to reset the counter.
-- Retry from scratch with a new Pinecone index and cloned repo.
+- Retry from scratch with a new Pinecone project, index, and cloned repo.
 
 ## Credit