Compatibility record
Does ChatGPT support PDF analysis?
Supported
ChatGPT analyzes uploaded PDFs on Free, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu for extraction and synthesis tasks, with Free on limited upload and data-analysis quotas.
Last verified2026-09-08
Confidencehigh
Primary sources3
What this state means
Supported, with the qualification kept attached.
Free data-analysis and upload quotas are Limited. Enterprise documents additional visual retrieval for charts and images inside PDFs.
Capability definition
Extracts or interprets information from uploaded PDF documents.
Scope boundary
Text extraction, visual PDF understanding, form editing, and PDF creation are distinct capabilities.
Evidence
Primary records behind the answer.
- 01
“All files uploaded to a GPT or a ChatGPT conversation have a hard limit of 512MB per file.”
- 02
“while you can currently upload an existing spreadsheet for ChatGPT to edit or use as a template”
- 03
“For some data-analysis tasks, ChatGPT writes and runs Python code in a stateful Jupyter notebook environment.”