Read PDFs from Gmail, Google Drive, or any link - Arora

Contracts, invoices, statements, and proposals still live in PDFs. Arora reads them for your AI, page by page, so you can ask questions about the document instead of retyping it.

Where the PDF can come from

A link that starts with https://
An email attachment in Gmail, once your Gmail is connected
A file in Google Drive, once your Drive is connected

Read the PDF attached to the latest email from Acme and list every deadline in it.

Open the signed MSA in my Drive and tell me the termination notice period.

How it comes back

Your AI gets the text with a heading for each page, so it can tell you exactly where something is. Long PDFs go to your workspace so your AI can search and read them in sections. You can also ask for specific pages:

Just read pages 2 through 8.

What it can’t read

Scanned PDFs. Arora reads the text inside a PDF. A scan is a picture of a page with no text inside, so there’s nothing to read. Arora tells your AI when that’s the case instead of guessing.
Text inside images in an otherwise normal PDF.

Limits


Largest file	15 MB
Most pages	500
Time to download	30 seconds

Technical details

Tool name: bridge_read_pdf. Sources: Gmail attachment, Google Drive file, or HTTPS URL. Returns markdown with a ## Page N heading per page. Results over 10,000 characters are staged to the workspace; a pages range (for example 3 or 2-8) always returns inline.

Last modified on October 13, 2026