AI tools for working with documents
Draft, revise, summarize, and question reports, proposals, presentations, and uploaded files.
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Canva AICanva
Canva’s generative writing, image, video, editing, animation, and design tools.Start here if
The document is a presentation or designed deliverable that needs layout, images, and team editing.
Look elsewhere if
Your team cannot use a hosted design service for document work.
ChatGPTOpenAI
A hosted assistant for conversation, web research, document work, data analysis, writing, images, and code.Start here if
You want a standalone assistant for file analysis, data, images, and research, with separately enabled Microsoft connections.
Look elsewhere if
You need embedded PDF images analyzed outside ChatGPT Enterprise, or a dedicated document editor with tightly controlled revision and handoff features; other plans use text-only PDF retrieval and discard embedded images.
Related company source: ChatGPT file uploads (opens in a new tab)
ClaudeAnthropic
A hosted assistant for writing, research, analysis, coding, and creating work from uploaded context.Start here if
Substantial documents and written context are the center of the drafting or analysis work.
Look elsewhere if
You need a fully local assistant, chat files over 500 MB, project files over 30 MB, PDFs over 1,000 pages, visual PDF analysis after page 100, or embedded images read from non-PDF documents.
Related company source: Upload files to Claude (opens in a new tab)
Google GeminiGoogle
A hosted Google assistant for web research, uploaded-file analysis, connected Google services, and drafting in Canvas.Start here if
Uploaded files or connected Google material should feed analysis and drafting in Canvas, with export to Google Docs.
Look elsewhere if
You need offline processing, a dedicated desktop document editor, or cannot use the personal-account activity settings.
Related company sources: Upload and analyze files (opens in a new tab) · Create documents with Canvas (opens in a new tab) · Connect Google Workspace (opens in a new tab)
Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft
An assistant built into Microsoft 365 applications and connected to an organization’s work data.Start here if
You want one assistant inside your organization’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
Look elsewhere if
You lack the required Microsoft 365 plan, want a standalone tool, or need documented file limits and OCR behavior before choosing. The linked Microsoft pages publish no hard upload-size cap and do not establish scanned-PDF or OCR behavior, so treat both as unknown. Microsoft also warns that some long-document tasks in Word and PowerPoint may give less attention to the middle.
Related company sources: Microsoft 365 Copilot supported file formats (opens in a new tab) · Microsoft 365 Copilot document length guidance (opens in a new tab) · Add content to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat prompts (opens in a new tab)
Notion AINotion
AI features inside Notion for drafting, workspace search, meeting notes, and multi-step agent tasks.Start here if
The team drafts and searches documents inside an existing Notion workspace.
Look elsewhere if
You do not want Notion to be the underlying workspace for documents and knowledge.
PerplexityPerplexity AI
A search assistant that answers questions using current web sources and links back to them.Start here if
Your document work centers on source-linked research and longer reports.
Look elsewhere if
You need assurance that a long uploaded file will be analyzed in full, or you mainly need a document editor rather than a research assistant.
Related company source: File uploads (opens in a new tab)
What matters for this work
- 01Supported file types, handling of scanned PDFs, and size limits
- 02Where documents live, whether edits happen in place, and available exports
- 03Whether answers point back to the relevant page or passage
- 04Data handling for sensitive documents
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