PDF Search is an app to search multiple documents insanely fast. It enables you to find any information in seconds within lots of documents. It uses its AI-powered algorithm to detect the best related pages. Just search your documents, reference books or notes using PDF Search. You will see the difference right after. It will make you shine in meetings, classes or at work using your Mac, iPad or iPhone.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
PDF Search makes intelligent search. Instead of checking the only existence, It analyses all pages separately and makes a relevancy check for each of them according to given keywords. This check is similar to how a human checks documents. For example, a human is more interested in a page if it has a title containing keywords. PDF Search combines all these kind of checks into a brand new algorithm. Using this algorithm, it finds the most relevant pages instantly among thousands of documents.
FEATURES
- Ultra-fast search
- Synchronization between iOS and macOS app.
- Page ranking system
- Word distance algorithm
- Keyword placement analyze
- Ability to understand what you mean when you mistype a keyword
- Export search results as a new PDF document which is containing all best pages from most relevant documents. So you can share results as one document.
- Wild-char search ability to search words starting or ending with other words.
- Export current page as PDF easily to share with others
- Folder based navigation
- iCloud folder support
- Tag support
- Bookmark support
- Empower search with similar keywords
- Emphasize? power ranking (Header, title, paragraph detection)
- PDF Converter : Convert office documents to PDF
- Export as PDF
- Support for Word, Powerpoint, Pages, Keynote and RTF documents with the integration of PDF Converter app.
- Ability to run as a window app or menu bar app.
- Quick navigation between pages in different documents
- Insert annotates to pages (Highlight, Underline, Strikethrough)
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Comments and Reviews
This app has made me more a more efficient college student by allowing me to search through my personal library of textbook PDFs and Powerpoint lecture slides.
I can easily fact-check concepts I learned in class against the materials I study off of like Microsoft Office files and PDFs by searching for queries that don't appear word-for-word like in a PDF reader's search tool.
There are a few downsides: indexing a large repository of files takes a long time (gigabytes of PDFs meant I had my laptop running overnight, and several times the app has crashed while doing that initial indexing), and sometimes the app will "steal focus" and pop-up obtrusively.
The developer was quick to respond to a few questions I had so I know the app is actively maintained and bugs will get fixed (and have)