# Upload your data

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Overview of Pinecone Assistant files: supported file types (PDF, DOCX, JSON, MD, TXT), metadata filters, storage, and signed URL access.
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:::card{title="Upload files" href="/guides/upload-your-data-upload-files"}
Upload local files to a Pinecone assistant with Python, JavaScript, or curl, track ingestion operations, and see how uploads are billed as ingestion units.
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:::card{title="Multimodal context for assistants" href="/guides/upload-your-data-multimodal"}
Enable multimodal PDF context in Pinecone Assistant to analyze charts, images, and diagrams using OCR and visual understanding for RAG.
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:::card{title="Manage files" href="/guides/upload-your-data-manage-files"}
List files in your Pinecone assistant, check individual file ingestion status by ID, view metadata, and delete files using the API, SDKs, or console.
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## Related pages

- [Account management](./account-management-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-2-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Architecture](./architecture-index.md)
- [Assistants](./assistants-index.md)
- [Bring Your Own Cloud](./bring-your-own-cloud-index.md)
- [Build an assistant](./build-an-assistant-index.md)
- [Build an integration](./build-an-integration-index.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog-index.md)

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