Anthropic is making its Claude AI somewhat extra helpful by enabling it to research your paperwork.
Beginning at this time, you may add a file from Google Docs to your Claude AI chat or undertaking to offer extra context to conversations.
You may then ask the chatbot questions concerning the doc, resembling asking for a abstract of the content material, like within the beneath screenshot.
At present, Google Docs integration for Claude is barely obtainable to customers on Claude Professional and Claude for Work. For Claude for Work customers, you may have to observe the directions right here to arrange your integration.
This is methods to add a Google Docs doc to Claude:
- Hover over the paperclip icon within the decrease proper nook of the chat interface.
- Click on the Google Drive icon. If that is your first time doing this, you may log in to your Google account.
- Search by means of your lately accessed paperwork or paste your doc’s URL. You may add a number of Docs directly.
- Ship your message. Claude will entry and course of your doc in response to your query.
There are just a few caveats. First, Claude is barely capable of extract textual content from a doc. It can’t interpret photos, feedback, or ideas.
Second, you may solely sync paperwork that you’ve got permission to view in Google Drive. Should you lose entry to a doc whereas chatting with Claude, you will not have the ability to view its contents, however you will note these conversations.
Lastly, Google Docs added to chats and Challenge data sync instantly from Google Drive, which means Claude will at all times have entry to the most recent model of the doc.
This new characteristic brings Claude in keeping with different AIs. Gemini presents this similar functionality by means of extensions and ChatGPT presents it by means of connections.