{ "title": "PDF input", "description": "Upload a PDF for use as model input.", "slug": "pdf-documents", "locale": "en", "seoTitle": "PDF input — Can My Agent Use", "socialTitle": "PDF input", "socialDescription": "Compare PDF text, visual analysis, attachment counts, file-size limits, page boundaries, and unsupported cases.", "llmSummary": "PDF input makes an uploaded PDF available as model input. Text extraction, visual page analysis, file limits, and attachment limits are qualifiers.", "audience": "Engineers comparing chat, desktop, and CLI agent harnesses.", "contentKind": "feature", "status": "published", "tags": [ "perception" ], "updated": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z", "published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z", "category": "perception", "summary": "Upload a PDF for use as model input.", "specLabel": "Common product term", "aliases": [ "PDF upload", "PDF input", "document attachment" ], "capabilityKind": "atomic", "parent": "file-inputs", "related": [ "office-document-input", "upload-limits" ], "relations": [], "highlight": false, "notes": [ { "id": 1, "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: xAI's Grok FAQ lists PDF among the document types accepted directly in Grok Web chats and describes summarization, extraction, comparison, and analysis of uploaded files." }, { "id": 2, "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Grok Bot's desktop composer accepts PDF and plain-text documents. It accepts up to six attachments per message, with documents limited to 25 MB each; encrypted, damaged, unusually formatted, or very large files may not be readable." }, { "id": 3, "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Claude accepts PDFs in chats on its web and desktop surfaces. Its help documentation describes visual analysis for PDFs under 100 pages, a 500 MB per-file chat limit, and a separate 30 MB project-file limit; larger or nonvisual handling has narrower fidelity." }, { "id": 5, "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Perplexity web accepts PDFs as file attachments and uses their content as session context. Short files are analyzed in full while longer files may be reduced to extracted important parts; visual-PDF fidelity is not established by the reviewed page." }, { "id": 6, "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Microsoft Copilot web accepts PDF uploads up to 50 MB and documents analysis, extraction, summarization, and follow-up questions about uploaded files." }, { "id": 7, "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Mistral's current Vibe Work documentation, which supersedes Le Chat at chat.mistral.ai, accepts PDFs and answers from their uploaded content. Mistral separately describes image and scanned-page interpretation, but complete PDF visual fidelity is not guaranteed." }, { "id": 8, "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: VS Code Copilot Chat accepts PDF attachments when the selected model supports image input; GitHub documents PDF attachments as available on all Copilot plans." }, { "id": 9, "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Claude Code accepts attached PDFs and documents a maximum of 100 pages and 32 MB, with password-protected and invalid PDFs rejected." }, { "id": 10, "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Gemini CLI custom commands encode supported PDF paths referenced with @{...} and inject them as multimodal input." } ], "issues": [], "resources": [ { "id": "xai-grok-files-faq", "title": "xAI — Grok files and data FAQ", "href": "https://docs.x.ai/grok/faq", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "xAI", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "Files & Data" }, { "id": "xai-grok-bot-files", "title": "xAI — Grok Bot files and results", "href": "https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/files-and-results", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "xAI", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "Attach files" }, { "id": "anthropic-upload-files", "title": "Anthropic Help Center — Uploading files to Claude", "href": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8241126-upload-files-to-claude", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "Anthropic", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "Supported file types; PDF support" }, { "id": "perplexity-file-uploads", "title": "Perplexity Help Center — File uploads", "href": "https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/10354807-file-uploads", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "Perplexity", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "Upload files; file processing" }, { "id": "microsoft-copilot-file-upload", "title": "Microsoft Support — File upload in Microsoft Copilot", "href": "https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-copilot/file-upload-in-microsoft-copilot", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "Microsoft", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "Supported file formats; file analysis" }, { "id": "mistral-vibe-files", "title": "Mistral Docs — Work with Files and Canvas", "href": "https://docs.mistral.ai/vibe/work/files-and-canvas", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "Mistral AI", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "Supported formats; querying text documents" }, { "id": "mistral-vibe-overview", "title": "Mistral Docs — Vibe overview", "href": "https://docs.mistral.ai/vibe", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "Mistral AI", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "Le Chat is now Vibe; product entry point" }, { "id": "github-copilot-images", "title": "GitHub Docs — Asking GitHub Copilot questions in your IDE", "href": "https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/how-tos/chat-with-copilot/chat-in-ide?tool=vscode", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "GitHub", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "Using images in Copilot Chat" }, { "id": "anthropic-claude-code-errors", "title": "Claude Code Docs — Error reference", "href": "https://code.claude.com/docs/en/errors", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "Anthropic", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "PDF errors" }, { "id": "gemini-cli-custom-commands", "title": "Gemini CLI — Custom commands", "href": "https://geminicli.com/docs/cli/custom-commands/", "kind": "docs", "publisher": "Google", "evidenceType": "documented", "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28", "locator": "Injecting file content with @{...}; multimodal support" } ], "support": [ { "harness": "grok-web", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 1 ], "target": { "kind": "hosted-observation", "revision": "2026-08-28 Grok Web documentation observation", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "hosted-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "web documentation reports a limit of approximately 100 attached files per message" }, { "type": "policy", "value": "extremely large documents may need to be split into smaller files" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "xai-grok-files-faq", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] }, { "harness": "grok-bot-desktop", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 2 ], "target": { "kind": "hosted-observation", "revision": "2026-08-28 Grok Bot desktop documentation observation", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "hosted-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "desktop composer accepts up to six attachments per message and documents a 25 MB limit per document" }, { "type": "policy", "value": "encrypted, damaged, unusually formatted, or very large files may not be readable" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "xai-grok-bot-files", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] }, { "harness": "claude-web", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 3 ], "target": { "kind": "hosted-observation", "revision": "2026-08-28 Claude web documentation observation", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "hosted-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "PDF upload is supported; visual elements are analyzed for PDFs under 100 pages, with narrower text-oriented handling outside that boundary" }, { "type": "runtime", "value": "chat uploads are limited to 500 MB per file and 20 files per chat; project files have a separate 30 MB limit" }, { "type": "policy", "value": "encrypted PDFs, OCR quality, and complete fidelity for forms, annotations, and embedded media are not established by the reviewed page" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "anthropic-upload-files", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] }, { "harness": "claude-desktop", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 3 ], "target": { "kind": "hosted-observation", "revision": "2026-08-28 Claude desktop documentation observation", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "hosted-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "PDF upload is supported; visual elements are analyzed for PDFs under 100 pages, with narrower text-oriented handling outside that boundary" }, { "type": "runtime", "value": "chat uploads are limited to 500 MB per file and 20 files per chat; project files have a separate 30 MB limit" }, { "type": "policy", "value": "encrypted PDFs, OCR quality, and complete fidelity for forms, annotations, and embedded media are not established by the reviewed page" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "anthropic-upload-files", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] }, { "harness": "perplexity-web", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 5 ], "target": { "kind": "hosted-observation", "revision": "2026-08-28 Perplexity web documentation observation", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "hosted-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "PDF files can be attached to a web session and their content enters the session context; short files are analyzed in full while long files may be reduced to extracted important parts" }, { "type": "runtime", "value": "complete page-image, scanned-page, form, annotation, and embedded-media fidelity is not established by the reviewed page" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "perplexity-file-uploads", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] }, { "harness": "copilot-web", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 6 ], "target": { "kind": "hosted-observation", "revision": "2026-08-28 Microsoft Copilot web documentation observation", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "hosted-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "PDF is a supported document upload; Copilot can analyze, extract, summarize, answer questions, and continue with follow-up questions about uploaded files" }, { "type": "runtime", "value": "each file is limited to 50 MB and up to 20 files can be attached in one conversation" }, { "type": "runtime", "value": "scanned-page OCR, complete visual-page fidelity, forms, annotations, and embedded media are not established by the reviewed page" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "microsoft-copilot-file-upload", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] }, { "harness": "le-chat", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 7 ], "target": { "kind": "hosted-observation", "revision": "2026-08-28 Mistral Vibe web documentation observation", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "hosted-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "PDFs can be uploaded and queried directly; answers are documented as coming from uploaded content" }, { "type": "policy", "value": "Le Chat is now Vibe at the same chat.mistral.ai entry point; this claim is scoped to the Work upload path" }, { "type": "runtime", "value": "Mistral documents image and scanned-page interpretation separately, but does not guarantee complete fidelity for every PDF form, annotation, or embedded object" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "mistral-vibe-files", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, { "resourceId": "mistral-vibe-overview", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] }, { "harness": "vscode-copilot", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 8 ], "target": { "kind": "dated-documentation", "revision": "current GitHub Copilot Chat documentation for VS Code", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "local-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "PDF attachments can be pasted, dragged, or added from the VS Code Explorer when the selected model supports image input" }, { "type": "plan", "value": "PDF and image attachments are documented as available on all Copilot plans and enabled by default" }, { "type": "runtime", "value": "page, size, OCR, and complex-layout limits are not listed on the reviewed page" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "github-copilot-images", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] }, { "harness": "claude-cli", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 9 ], "target": { "kind": "dated-documentation", "revision": "current Claude Code error documentation", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "local-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "attached PDFs are supported up to 100 pages and 32 MB" }, { "type": "policy", "value": "password-protected and invalid PDFs are rejected; complete OCR, form, annotation, and embedded-media fidelity is not established" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "anthropic-claude-code-errors", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] }, { "harness": "gemini-cli", "versions": [ { "track": "current", "status": "yes", "noteIds": [ 10 ], "target": { "kind": "dated-documentation", "revision": "current Gemini CLI custom-command documentation", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" }, "environmentProfile": "local-default", "qualifiers": [ { "type": "runtime", "value": "supported PDF files referenced with @{...} inside a custom command are encoded and injected as multimodal input" }, { "type": "runtime", "value": "this evidence establishes custom-command file injection; PDF limits, OCR behavior, and ordinary-prompt attachment methods are not established by the reviewed page" } ], "evidence": [ { "resourceId": "gemini-cli-custom-commands", "type": "documented", "observedAt": "2026-08-28" } ] } ] } ], "html": "/features/pdf-documents", "markdown": "/features/pdf-documents.md", "json": "/api/v1/features/pdf-documents.json", "body": "This row asks whether the exact harness can accept a PDF and expose useful document content to the model. Evidence should distinguish text extraction from page-image understanding, tables and forms from plain text, scanned PDFs from born-digital files, and password-protected files from ordinary documents.\n\nRecord page, file-size, file-count, plan, and model limits as qualifiers. A generic file picker or workspace file reader does not by itself prove PDF parsing.\n\nThe reviewed surfaces remain separate because limits and fidelity differ by product. These cells establish PDF input, not reliable OCR for every scan, support for encrypted files, or identical handling of forms, annotations, and embedded media.\n\nUnlisted harness cells remain **unknown** until a dated note and public source support a more specific status. Use the Markdown and JSON twins if you are an agent reading this site." }