---
title: "Update Document File"
method: POST
path: "/documents/{document_id}/update_file"
tags: ["Documents"]
---

# Update Document File

`POST /documents/{document_id}/update_file`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.morphik.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.morphik.ai/documents/{document_id}/update_file`
- Auth: none declared

Update a document by replacing its content with a new file and queueing re-ingestion.

## Path parameters

- `document_id` string, required

## Headers

- `authorization` string, nullable

## Request body `multipart/form-data`

- BodyUpdateDocumentFileDocumentsDocumentIdUpdateFilePost
  - `file` string, binary, required
  - `metadata` string
  - `metadata_types` string
  - `use_colpali` boolean, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- Document: Represents a document stored in the database documents collection
  - `external_id` string
  - `content_type` string, required
  - `filename` string, nullable
  - `metadata` object
  - `metadata_types` object
  - `storage_info` object
  - `system_metadata` object
  - `additional_metadata` object
  - `chunk_ids` string[]
  - `summary_storage_key` string, nullable
  - `summary_version` integer, nullable
  - `summary_bucket` string, nullable
  - `summary_updated_at` string, nullable
  - `folder_name` string, nullable
  - `end_user_id` string, nullable
  - `app_id` string, nullable
  - `folder_path` string, nullable
  - `folder_id` string, nullable

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-01-22** `2d9291c3821d`: 2 info
  - `header` request parameter `authorization` list-of-types was widened by adding types `null`
  - for the `header` request parameter `authorization`, the type was generalized from `string` to no type
- **2025-12-18** `4b79c3821a17`: 2 warning, 5 info
  - removed the request property `update_strategy`
  - removed the optional property `storage_files` from the response with the `200` status
  - added the optional property `folder_id` to the response with the `200` status
  - added the optional property `summary_bucket` to the response with the `200` status
  - …3 more
- **2025-12-06** `e185c542e939`: 1 info
  - added the optional property `folder_path` to the response with the `200` status
- **2025-11-13** `b9ae748cb938`: 2 info
  - added the new optional request property `metadata_types`
  - added the optional property `metadata_types` to the response with the `200` status
- **2025-11-05** `9ade02dd7b1d`: 1 warning
  - removed the request property `rules`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/morphik-org/apis/morphik-api/changes/documents/:document_id/update_file/post.md)

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