What is PDF Search?
PDF Search is a desktop software application designed specifically for searching text within PDF documents. It provides an easy way to index and search through even a large collection of PDFs to quickly find what you need.
The software works by scanning all your PDF files, extracting the textual content using optical character recognition (OCR), and indexing the text for fast searching. It builds a searchable database from your PDF collection. You can then search for words or phrases across some or all PDF documents to instantly see matching pages.
Key features of PDF Search include:
- Indexes all text from PDF files for quick full-text searching
- Supports wild card searches and boolean operators for advanced queries
- Displays a list of matching PDFs with highlighted search hits
- Lets you search many PDFs at once or limit search to select documents
- Adds new PDFs seamlessly to update the search index
- Save frequently used searches for one-click reuse
- Works with PDFs created in any application
If you regularly need to search information contained in PDF files, PDF Search can save you substantial time compared to manually skimming through documents. It's designed to search text in PDFs as fast as finding text on webpages. The software works on Windows and Mac computers.
EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Qiqqa, JabRef, Paperpile, ReadCube Papers, Mayan EDMS, wizdom.ai, EasyBib, Peerlibrary, BibSonomy, PubChase, Ambar, KBibTeX, bibus, Utopia Documents are some alternatives to PDF Search.