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Thanks to its advanced vision capabilities, ChatGPT can offer you in-depth analysis and summarization of images and documents alike. This can be extremely handy when you have a research paper or legal documents spanning dozens of PDF pages. Why go through the hassle of manually parsing them when you can simply let ChatGPT do it for you? In this guide, you’ll discover just how effortless it is to upload PDFs to ChatGPT.

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Difficulty

Easy

Duration

5 minutes

Upload a PDF to ChatGPT

Step 1: Log in to ChatGPT. Open your web browser and navigate to ChatGPT.com. Then, click the Sign In button located in the lower-left corner. Enter your credentials as required.

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Step 2: Attach the PDF to the prompt window. Click the paperclip icon next to the text input field. You can choose where you want the document to be sourced from – you can select from your local hard drive, Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive. Then, click the file you wish to attach.

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Step 3: Enter your query. Once the PDF is attached, type your query, question, directions, or whatever you need into the prompt field. In this case, I’m asking the system how much more pork I’d need if I wanted to triple the serving size of the recipe. Click the upward-facing arrow button on the right edge of the prompt window to upload everything to ChatGPT’s servers and give the system time to carry out its analysis.

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