Claude reads and reasons over uploaded documents with a level of comprehension that goes beyond keyword extraction. It understands document structure, follows cross-references, and answers questions about meaning, intent, and implication — not just what is written.
Attach files directly in the Claude interface. Multiple files can be uploaded in a single conversation for cross-document analysis.
Ask a targeted question or request a specific output format: summary, risk list, data extraction, comparison table, or Q&A.
Claude reads the full document including headers, tables, footnotes, and appendices — not just the body text — and processes structural relationships.
Responses include references to specific sections so you can verify where information came from and quickly navigate to the source.
Extracting methodology and findings
Read this paper and extract: research question, sample size and demographics, methodology, key findings with statistical significance, and limitations acknowledged by the authors.
Understanding compliance requirements
Read this 60-page GDPR compliance document. List every specific obligation it creates for a B2B SaaS company, ranked by implementation effort, with the exact clause numbers.
Evaluating a vendor proposal
Review this vendor proposal against our requirements document (both attached). Grade each requirement as Met/Partially Met/Not Met and flag any pricing concerns.
For large documents, first ask "give me a structural overview of this document" before asking specific questions — this helps you know what to ask for.
Upload a reference document ("this is our standard contract") and a new document and ask "how does this new contract deviate from our standard?"
If a document has important tables, ask specifically "reproduce the data in table 3 as a structured list" to get clean, queryable output.
Upload multiple papers and ask "compare the methodologies and findings across all documents, noting where authors agree and disagree."