Here’s how you can talk to your PDF files

OpenAI recently announced new plugins for its ChatGPT Plus subscription. With an extension, you can even upload PDFs such as articles and books to access the content via ChatGPT. The backgrounds.

ChatGPT Plus has recently added two new features. Users of the paid subscription can, for example, activate what is known as web browsing. With this you can allow ChatGPT to search the Internet for current data.

Additionally, Plus users now have the ability to enable third-party plugins. With an extension, you can even upload PDFs and then retrieve them via ChatGPT.

ChatGPT: How to activate plugins

With the “AskyourPDF” plugin, ChatGPT can transform your documents into your own chatbots. It only takes a few clicks to upload your PDFs and retrieve their content.

First you need to make sure that the plugin feature is activated on ChatGPT. To do this, click on the three-dot menu on the bottom left after you are on the site have logged in.

Then select “Settings” and “Beta Features”. Then activate the slider under “Plugins”. Note: As OpenAI is gradually rolling out its new functions, the plugins may not yet be available to all users.

Plugin “AskyourPDF”: Upload PDFs to ChatGPT Plus

In theory, you should now be able to download third-party plugins. To do this, first click on “Plugins” in the drop-down list and then on “Plugin Store”. Then use the search to install the “AskyourPDF” extension. The plugin is completely free.

Now select “askyourodf/upload” via the feature and upload any PDF. If the plugin is activated, you can now ask ChatGPT questions about the content of the selected document. An example: “Summarize the first chapter of the book in one paragraph”.

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