United StatesPDF 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 AI-powered search algorithm to detect the best related pages. It has lots of unique features, like NLP based Linguistic Search, Text Recognition (Built-in OCR), Search Results Export, Table of Contents search, which will boost the productivity of your any document based workflows. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Ordinary search tools search for existence. They only check whether your keywords exist in documents or not. Then they give you a bunch of document list. You check them one by one to understand whether they are the one you are looking for or not. There is no intelligence, just like a machine. 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. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING * PDF Search supports tokenizing and lemmatization while indexing. With this feature you will be able to search plurals or lemma of the keywords. For example when you search for "hike" you will get results for "hiking" also. Or when you search for "children" you will get results for "child" also. TEXT RECOGNITION ON IMAGES INSIDE DOCUMENTS (OCR) PDF Search app has built-in OCR capability. It can index and search texts on images inside documents for the supported languages.* UNIFIED SEARCH EXPERIENCE You can search documents on your Mac using iPhone or iPad. Just Sync your files over WiFi with a single click and move all documents with you anywhere. CONVERT DOCUMENTS TO PDF Word, Powerpoint, Pages, Keynote, RTF, Text documents and Source Codes are supported with the integration of PDF Converter. PDF Converter is a free helper app which you can download from our website. After you install it office documents are converted to PDF automatically and indexed by PDF Search. FEATURES ● Ultra-fast search ● Artificial Intelligence to find the best related pages in seconds. ● Text recognition on images inside documents (Built-in OCR). ● 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. ● 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 ● 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 ● 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 SUBSCRIPTION If you choose to purchase PDF Search Pro by a subscription option, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase. Read more about our terms and conditions here: https://pdfsearch.app/privacy.html https://pdfsearch.app/terms.html
Great Application, but Confusing User Interaction Design
When the application window is opened, I can't use search key combination to evoke search on the menu bar. I cannot use Cmd-W to hide the window, and when pressing Cmd-Q, the whole application closed, causing the menu bar icon disappeared. I'm hoping there could be a better way to evoke PDF search for a quick search.
United StatesEssential for my work
I have hundreds of PDFs I use for reference as part of my job. I frequently need to research a specific topic and need to find the needle(s) of useful information in the haystack of these books. PDF Search is essential for this. I can't imagine not having it anymore. I'm complimented on my thorough searches and reviews by colleagues.
United StatesFantastic app
I apparently tried this app a few years ago and it was, to be honest, not good enough to keep on my machine. But I recently went looking for a PDF search app and downloaded this without realizing I had already tried it before. Wow what a difference! The current version (12.13 as of this writing) is really very good. It's a totally different app than the one I recall trying before. I would ignore the old reviews and give this a try. The UI is well thought out and clean, and the searches are powerful; especially the ability to use one result set as the basis of a subsequent search. Anyway, I can't recommend this app more highly. It is exactly what I was looking for.
United StatesFunctionality great at first, issues with support
PDF Search worked great for about a week then stopped working. I contacted support via email, never heard back from them. Removed and reinstalled the app and it works again but now it prompts to pay a second time. Does not recognize the Restore Previous Purchase function I have asked Apple for a refund. UPDATE: I figured out what happened. I had activated the app using the license key from your email. The next time the App Store prompted me to install updates I did and a different (newer?) version of PDF Search installed. That is when it stopped being recognized as PRO. I have removed everything, reinstalled from the link in my purchase email, and reactivated. Everything is working now. This is confusing and, I assume, I should never let the App Store update PDF Search and only do that from Check Updates within the app. Thanks for getting back to me.
United StatesFunctionality great at first, issues with support
PDF Search worked great for about a week then stopped working. I contacted support via email, never heard back from them. Removed and reinstalled the app and it works again but now it prompts to pay a second time. Does not recognize the Restore Previous Purchase function I have asked Apple for a refund.
United StatesHow is this so good?!
I don't rate apps. But this app is so unique, does such an excellent job- it is almost like magic. Anyone who relies on finding and reusing information from PDFs should have this app
United StatesPromising Software
I'm a historian and writer and have over 10,000 Word and pdf files. Since I could no longer find what I was looking for, I decided to try to find a program that would enable me to do keyword searching. PDF Search had a lot of promise and I tried it out before purchasing it. It seemed to be what I needed so I bought it. That's when my problems started. The developer is very responsive and helpful - otherwise I would never have made it. He is not a fluent English speaker and the manuals leave a lot to be desired in terms of explaining how this program works. He patiently explained, as best he could, how to use his program. Here are two key takeways you need to know. (1) PDF Search must be used with PDF Converter, which is a free addon. Without PDF Converter, the program will not index Word files. (2) PDF Search also must be used with Libre Office. Both of these programs are integrated into PDF Search - you don't use them by themselves. I'm comfortable with Word and did not want to give that program up to learn Libre Office - you don't need to. PDF Search has a very difficult time converting Word documents into keyword searchable files without Libre Office - it hangs during the indexing process and takes forever to complete. With Libre Office installed in the Applications folder (remember - you don't need to use it - it just has to be there), the process goes quite smoothly. In the Preferences pane for PDF Search, under General, I unchecked "Animated Highlight" as I found that feature annoying. YMMV, though. Under Index, check "Microsoft Office" if you use Word. Under OCR, check "Auto detect for OCR" and uncheck the other boxes. An important caveat here: if you want the processing to go quickly, run your pdf files through an OCR processing program **before** running PDF Search. I ran mine through PDFpen Pro. If you do not do this, PDF Search will still find your keyword (it doesn't do OCR - it finds the keyword with AI, apparently), but your search results will take significantly longer to be presented. If you want PDF Search to slow to a snail's pace during the indexing process, just check "Enable Text Recognition for all documents" under the OCR tab. You will wait days for the indexing process to complete! Under the Search tab, check "Check and index new documents automatically." When you make a change to one of your Word documents, PDF Search "sees" that and updates instantly. Very cool. Do NOT click on "Reset" unless you want to wipe the slate clean and start all over. If it had not been for the help of the developer, I would never have gotten up and running. This is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill keyword search program. It is very different. I think it will prove to be a life-saver in terms of frustration at not being able to find what I wanted to find in my documents. If the developer could find someone to write a more comprehensive and English-friendly manual, I think this program would have many more users.
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- Stability improvements. - UI improvements.
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