Chat with PDF

Ask questions about an uploaded document in plain English and get answers grounded in its actual contents. Supports follow-up questions and comparisons across sections.

Pro AI tools send document content to xAI.

Chat with Doc is a Pro feature — included in PDFwarp Pro at $9 USD/month along with every other tool and unlimited conversions.

The file is extracted once on the first turn (~12,000 character cap) and the text is sent to xAI with your question. Later turns reuse that extracted text plus the in-session message history; the file is not re-uploaded. The model is told to answer from the document and to say so when the answer is not there. Pro only.

Why use PDFwarp for Chat with Doc?

How to use Chat with Doc — step by step

  1. Upload your document.
  2. Type your question in the chat box.
  3. Get an answer grounded in the extracted text. Ask follow-ups in the same session.

Tips & best practices

Specific beats open-ended

'What's the termination clause?' gives a specific, verifiable answer. 'Tell me about this document' gets a summary. Specific questions produce the most useful responses.

Follow-ups have context

After asking about a clause, follow-ups like 'What's the notice period?' use your earlier question as context. You don't need to re-explain what document you're asking about.

Verify critical answers

AI can be confidently wrong on dates, dollar amounts, and legal specifics — especially near document edges or in OCR'd scans. For anything you'll act on, cross-check against the source.

Under the hood

File on turn one; text on every later turn

The route is not wrapped in the usual file decorator because the upload is optional after the first message. Auth, Pro plan, and the 30-call daily AI cap are checked by hand. Size still uses the Pro 500 MB ceiling.

Prompt cache on the document block

The chat helper puts the extracted text in a system prefix and sets prompt_cache_key so follow-ups route to the same xAI server and hit the automatic prefix cache. History is the JSON array the browser sends.

Instructed to stay inside the document

The system prompt says to answer from the document and to admit when the answer is not there. That is a prompt, not a guarantee — still verify numbers before you act on them.

Frequently asked questions

What can I ask?

Anything about the extracted text — key facts, dates, figures, clauses, summaries of specific sections. If it is not in those ~12,000 characters, the model should say so.

Does it remember previous questions?

Yes, within this session. History is posted with each turn from the browser. Close the tab and it is gone.

What documents work best?

Text-based PDFs, Word, and .txt. Scanned pages need AI Scan to Text first.

Is chat stored on PDFwarp?

No chat log is written to our database. The first upload counts as an AI call; follow-ups still go to xAI with the cached document text.

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