What’s changing 

Last year, we introduced the ability to use Gemini in Google Drive to interact with PDFs and later improved upon this by integrating Gemini in the side panel of Google Drive's overlay PDF viewing experience. Today, we’re excited to announce that the ability to interact with PDFs in Google Drive’s file viewer is now available in the following languages:
  • Spanish 
  • Portuguese 
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Italian 
  • French 
  • German 
  • Mandarin
  • Dutch 
  • Malay 
  • Modern Hebrew 
  • Polish 
  • Turkish 
  • Common Czech 
  • Indonesian 
  • Central Standard Swedish 
  • Standard Danish 
  • Norwegian 
  • Vietnamese 
  • Thai 
  • Ukrainian 
  • Finnish 
  • Arabic 
  • Greek 
  • Russian 
  • Hungarian 
  • Catalan Valencian 
  • Romanian 

As a result, you can now use Gemini in Drive in even more languages to do things like: 
  • Admins: To access Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console. 
  • End users: 
    • To access this feature, double-click on a PDF from the Google Drive file list and click on "Ask Gemini" (star button) in the top right corner. 
    • Note: When Gemini initially launched in Workspace, PDFs viewed in Drive opened in a new browser tab to allow interaction with the Gemini side panel. With this update, the default behavior will open a file in the overlay file previewer. If you prefer for PDFs to open in a new tab by default, you can update your PDF opening default behavior in your Drive settings. If you previously set a preferred PDF opening default behavior in your Drive setting, your default open behavior will remain the same. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Gemini in Drive to work with PDFs. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available to Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Google One AI Premium 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.


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