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PDF Search for Mac

Search through your PDF documents lightening fast.

$49.99
In English
4.6
Based on 7 user rates

PDF Search overview

PDF Search is a utility which has a revolutionary search algorithm especially developed for PDF documents. The time to reach the information in your PDF documents will be minimum with it. It will make you able to find what you are looking for within thousands of documents instantly. It is system integrated. You can start a search directly from system menu bar like Spotlight.

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.
  • Search specific files
  • Higher rank for up-to-date files
  • Quick navigation between pages in different documents
  • Highlighting keywords in animations
  • Insert annotates to pages (Highlight, Underline, Strikethrough)
  • Global shortcut key to search
  • Backup index database

What’s new in version 12.18

  • Added a new feature called "Index with Pure OCR". With this feature, you can apply text recognition to an entire page, even if it contains a text layer. This resolves indexing issues for content-protected documents.
  • Fixed incorrect location highlighting issue for some documents indexed with OCR.
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PDF Search for Mac

$49.99
In English
Version 12.18
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4.6

(12 Reviews of PDF Search)

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Gaberdine
Gaberdine
May 10 2022
12.12
0.0
May 10 2022
0.0
Version: 12.12
Has anybody used this to index and search RTF, TXT and Office documents? The instructions are vague, the set-up tells me I need to install free "PDF Converter App" but the More Info button only opens the homepage, and I can't find anything in the Manual.
britinokinawa
britinokinawa
Aug 9 2020
10.1
0.0
Aug 9 2020
0.0
Version: 10.1
"lightening fast?"
anonymous-swordtail-5987
anonymous-swordtail-5987
Jun 28 2020
9.12
4.0
Jun 28 2020
4.0
Version: 9.12
Bit expensive, but like it
Septic Monkey
Septic Monkey
May 11 2020
8.8
4.0
May 11 2020
4.0
Version: 8.8
So I updated when prompted, but now you want me to pay again? Think again.
Septic Monkey
Septic Monkey
May 4 2020
8.8
4.0
May 4 2020
4.0
Version: 8.8
My goto app for searchinh hundreds of PDFs. I especially like being able to copy bits of text straight from the results window without having to open Preview. If I could make a couple of suggestions, it would be to stop the many pop-up windows that seems to appear; eg, error messages when there are no errors and offers to take me to the developers website. Also, the app does unexpectedly quit quite a lot upon activation.
Bezbozny
Bezbozny
Dec 2 2021
11.9
5.0
Dec 2 2021
5.0
Version: 11.9
anonymous-swordtail-5987
Jun 28 2020
4.0
Version: null
Septic Monkey
Septic Monkey
May 4 2020
4.0
May 4 2020
4.0
Version: null
ahmedhatata-ah
ahmedhatata-ah
Mar 11 2019
5.0
Mar 11 2019
5.0
Version: null
Dellu
Dellu
Mar 3 2019
4.5
Mar 3 2019
4.5
Version: null
Jfm
Jfm
Feb 9 2019
5.0
Feb 9 2019
5.0
Version: null
Saladin
Saladin
May 25 2017
5.0
May 25 2017
5.0
Version: null