Upload documents and get instant summaries, Q&A, and key information extraction
Perplexity can read and analyze uploaded PDFs and documents, answering questions about their content, extracting specific data, and summarizing key points — while also searching the web to provide relevant context that augments the document content.
Attach a PDF or document file to your Perplexity query. The document is processed and its content indexed for the conversation.
Ask about any aspect of the document content: "Summarize section 4", "What are the key risk factors mentioned?", "List all mentioned deadlines."
Perplexity uniquely combines document content with live web search — so if a document mentions a statistic, it can verify or contextualize it with current web data.
Responses are structured appropriately for the question — tables for data extraction, bullet lists for summaries, paragraphs for analysis.
Processing an academic paper quickly
I've uploaded a machine learning research paper. Summarize the core methodology, the key results and their statistical significance, and explain how this research compares to current state-of-the-art results in this area.
Extracting data from an industry report
Extract all the market size projections mentioned in this uploaded market research report, organize them in a table by year and segment, and find current news that either supports or contradicts these projections.
Understanding a product specification
This is a product technical specification document. List all the compatibility requirements, the key technical parameters and their acceptable ranges, and flag any specs that seem outdated compared to current industry standards.
Perplexity's unique advantage: upload a document and ask it to "verify the statistics in this report against current data sources." No other AI does document + live web in one step.
"List every date mentioned in this document with its context" is more useful than "summarize this" for contracts, legal documents, and project plans.
Upload a competitor's product brochure, annual report, or whitepaper and ask "compare the claims in this document with our own product capabilities — where do they claim superiority and is it supported?"
Upload a meeting agenda or pre-read document before a meeting and ask "what questions should I be prepared to answer in this meeting based on this agenda?"