Move your team from ChatPDF to Claude.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Claude — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in ChatPDF is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
ChatPDF's folder of PDFs you chat against maps to a Claude Project, where files uploaded to the project's knowledge are shared across every conversation in that project. To migrate: create a Project in Claude, upload the same PDFs into the project's knowledge (its Files section), add a short instruction describing how to answer, then start chats that draw on those documents. For ad-hoc single-document Q&A you can also just attach a PDF directly to a normal Claude chat instead of building a project. Claude additionally reasons, drafts, and runs code on the documents, going beyond ChatPDF's read-and-cite scope.
- Warning: Basic Projects exist on free Claude accounts, but the expanded project-knowledge behaviour that retrieves across many uploaded files (RAG) is limited to paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise); ChatPDF offers a free tier with no account, so getting parity on large knowledge bases assumes the user pays for Claude.
- Warning: Claude project-knowledge files are capped at 30 MB each, and a project's knowledge is surfaced via retrieval (Claude's help docs describe roughly up-to-10x context expansion) rather than loading every page verbatim, whereas ChatPDF Plus handles single PDFs up to 2,000 pages / 32 MB; very large document sets may exceed what the project retrieves at once.
- Warning: Claude does not surface ChatPDF-style explicit per-answer page citations by default; it cites uploaded files conversationally, so verifying an exact source page takes more manual checking.