ChatGPT has proven to be a great tool for numerous professionals and students. You can create summaries, ask useful questions, guide it through various tasks, and much more. However, if you have been using ChatGPT for a while, then you must have noticed that there is no way to upload a file to ChatGPT. This can be a baffling thing if you were planning to use ChatGPT to help you with a book or a document in PDF format. So how do you upload a PDF file to ChatGPT? Well, there is a way, and here is how you can use it on your PC or phone using a browser app like Google Chrome.

There are several extensions that use the ChatGPT API to add interesting and new features to ChatGPT. Among them are several tools that allow you to upload and analyze PDF files. However, most of these tools are paid with certain limitations on their language model.

BookGPT, a fork of Hugging Face, can help you with this. BookGPT can read PDF files from a URL or a local file, and can even quote page numbers to help you with citations. Here’s how to use it to upload and use PDF files with ChatGPT.

Step 1: Go to chat.openai.com in your browser and log in to your account.