Yes, Gemini can read images: you can upload photos, screenshots, charts and scanned pages and ask it to describe them, pull out text or answer questions about them.
As of November 14, 2026, according to Google’s official documentation:
- Gemini app: sign in, click Add files, then Upload Files, or add images from Google Drive. You can attach up to 10 files per prompt (subject to availability), and each non-video file can be up to 100 MB, per Gemini Apps Help. Google AI plans raise some upload limits.
- Formats (API): PNG, JPEG, WebP, HEIC and HEIF.
- Gemini API: Google says all Gemini model versions are multimodal and handle captioning, visual Q&A, classification, object detection and segmentation. A request can include up to 3,600 images. Inline data is capped at 20 MB per request, so larger images go through the Files API.
- Cost: an image of 384 by 384 pixels or smaller uses 258 tokens; larger images are split into 768-pixel tiles at 258 tokens each.
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Source: Gemini Apps Help, Upload and analyze files and Gemini API Docs, Image understanding
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