Text Document Upload

You can upload text documents directly to your account and analyze them using AI. Chat directly with your text documents using the AI Assistant or pull them into multi-file insights to identify patterns, surface inconsistencies, and answer specific questions across multiple text, audio, and/or video files. Whether you're working with interviews, meeting recordings, police reports, witness statements, or case documents, text uploads help you build the complete picture faster.

 

Please note: Uploading text documents is currently in beta. While we're continuously improving the experience, you may encounter occasional issues or limitations as we refine the feature.

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Upload Text Documents

To get started, upload your TXT, PDF, or Word documents directly into your Rev account to access them and gain valuable insights through AI chat. This expands Rev beyond just audio and video files, allowing you to work with all your important documents in one place.

  1. Open the upload box on your account’s home screen, or click Add in the top right corner.
  2. Click Browse files, or drag your files into the box. You can also browse Google Drive or upload from a link.
  3. When the upload finishes, a confirmation window shows where the file will be saved. By default, files are saved to My Files. To save the file somewhere else, click Edit next to File destination.
  4. Click Open file destination to go to the file, or Analyze files to start a chat with it.
     
Rev upload box on the home screen with a Browse files button, a drag-and-drop area, a supported formats line, and options to browse Google Drive, upload a ZIP file, or upload from a link.
 

 

 

Upload confirmation window showing a File destination of My files with an Edit link, and Done, Analyze files, and Open file destination buttons.
 

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Supported File Types

You can upload TXT, PDF, and Word (.docx and .doc) documents. Scanned PDFs, which are images of text, are read with optical character recognition (OCR). Excel spreadsheets (.xls and .xlsx) are not supported. To analyze a spreadsheet, save it as a PDF first.

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File Size, Page and File Limits

Each document can be up to 75 MB. Scanned PDFs (PDFs that are images of text and are read with OCR) can be up to 1,000 pages. The number of files you can add to a single Insights chat depends on your plan:

  • Free : 5 files
  • Essentials: 10 files
  • Pro: 50 files
  • Enterprise/Unlimited: no plan limit

No chat can include more than 500 files. If a file is over these limits, split it into smaller files and upload them separately.

If a file shows a red triangle with the message ‘an error occurred while processing the file,’ check its size and page count, then try uploading it again. If it still fails, contact support@rev.com and include the file name.

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Rev Insights with Text Documents

Click a text document in your files to open it in Insights, where you can chat with it using the AI Assistant.

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Multiple Files

The most powerful capability of text uploads is the ability to analyze multiple files simultaneously—combining audio transcripts, video files, PDFs, Word documents, and text documents in a single analysis. This allows you to:

  • Identify inconsistencies between different sources and statements
  • Surface critical gaps between narratives across multiple documents
  • Build comprehensive arguments by connecting evidence from various file types
  • Uncover patterns that might be missed when reviewing files individually
  • Create a complete story by stitching together insights from all your sources

For example, you could analyze witness statements alongside police reports, interview recordings, and case documents all at once to quickly spot discrepancies, strengthen your position, or identify areas that need further investigation.

You can include clips, TXT, PDF, or Word documents, transcripts, audio, and video in any combination when using multi-file insights. 

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