Edge Copilot Sidebar can answer questions about your PDF document

When a PDF is open, you can pose questions to the Copilot Sidebar in Edge browser regarding the document. 

Questions you may ask include:

• Summarizing the document or page

• Generating five questions about the document

• Identifying the author of the document

• Determining the publication date of the document

Copilot sends the content of the document to the model to generate a summary. 

For a PDF document that I asked Copilot questions about, I got useful answers in most cases. Copilot notified me that it was not saving the conversation to protect privacy.

In Edge there is no need to explicitly upload a PDF document, you just have to permit Copilot Sidebar to read the document that is already open.

AI Assistants such as Cohere's Command, Perplexity, and Claude also have the  capacity to analyze the content of uploaded PDF documents & text files and answer any posed questions. There are however restrictions on the size of the files and content.

Grounding Panel in Cohere's Command AI Assistant

Cohere Command's output includes citations pointing you to where it found the information it uses.