Anthropic is making its Claude AI a little more useful by enabling it to analyze your documents.
Starting today, you can add a file from Google Docs to your Claude AI chat or project to give more context to conversations.
You can then ask the chatbot questions about the document, such as asking for a summary of the content, like in the below screenshot.
Currently, Google Docs integration for Claude is only available to users on Claude Pro and Claude for Work. For Claude for Work users, you’ll need to follow the instructions here to set up your integration.
Here’s how to add a Google Docs document to Claude:
- Hover over the paperclip icon in the lower right corner of the chat interface.
- Click the Google Drive icon. If this is your first time doing this, you’ll log in to your Google account.
- Search through your recently accessed documents or paste your document’s URL. You can add multiple Docs at once.
- Send your message. Claude will access and process your document in response to your question.
There are a few caveats. First, Claude is only able to extract text from a document. It cannot interpret images, comments, or suggestions.
Second, you can only sync documents that you have permission to view in Google Drive. If you lose access to a document while chatting with Claude, you won’t be able to view its contents, but you will see those conversations.
Lastly, Google Docs added to chats and Project knowledge sync directly from Google Drive, meaning Claude will always have access to the latest version of the document.
Also: How Claude’s new AI data analysis tool compares to ChatGPT’s version
This new feature brings Claude in line with other AIs. Gemini offers this same capability through extensions and ChatGPT offers it through connections.
