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.

  1. 01

    File Uploads FAQ

    OpenAI · official support · accessed 2026-09-08

    All files uploaded to a GPT or a ChatGPT conversation have a hard limit of 512MB per file.
  2. 02

    Introducing ChatGPT agent

    OpenAI · official announcement · accessed 2026-09-08

    while you can currently upload an existing spreadsheet for ChatGPT to edit or use as a template
  3. 03

    Data analysis with ChatGPT

    OpenAI · official support · accessed 2026-09-08

    For some data-analysis tasks, ChatGPT writes and runs Python code in a stateful Jupyter notebook environment.