PDF Search

I had 118 PDF files that were scans of an old gazette. The website that they came from allowed you to search them but it picked up very little. I knew that the word that I was looking for should have showed up more often. Using the default settings in PDF Search found more matches than the website. I changed the search settings and reindexed and it found more. It is so easy and effective. I have used many Enterprise level indexing tools and even they take time to OCR etc. The time it took to index was better than I expected - especially as I was indexing on my iPhone.

The app is excellent overall, but I hope one annoying issue can be fixed. When I connect my Google Drive to the app, it downloads all of my PDFs and other documents and indexes them locally. I have a lot of files, and when it downloads and indexes them simultaneously, the app crashes constantly. It's really inconvenient having to reopen the app again and again. I hope this issue can be fixed soon. Thanks!

I hope the developers keep adding features because the app is amazing. I use it to search for PDF documents, such as books, and is very accurate. Specially I like the search across books series where I can just type a few words of an event or character I barely remember (from some books ago in a series) and will search and find the paragraphs with the key words typed.

Cmd + F for search (with Esc to cancel search), shortcuts for navigating through document / to other documents, etc.

It’s like a personal google for your documents. I used it for school and now I use it at work. I point it at office documents and textbooks PDFs, and it gives me the results I need in one place. Unfortunately the app is faulty. Indexing will sometimes not pick up files after repeated troubleshooting attempts. Worse, pdf viewing is buggy and you will lose your view when scrolling to the next page.

Ranks or NOT in proper order. Crashes often. Pdf export has many pages of blurred text No relevant data in help to solve the problems.

I have several items and it doesn’t keep the index and the indexing is incomplete resulting in poor search results!

The app itself is pretty good, just not very flexible in sorting and such. I sent a message to their help contact and heard not one thing from them. All-in-all, the experience with this firm and their app is middling.

I ran into problems with the app initially, as the issues were with my not knowing how to operate it correctly. The Excellent help from support team saved the day. I am now on a supersonic research speed. This app is the only one which could index search results with actual AI and index them and automatically rank them. The search results come super fast and handy. I would love to see an additional functionality of Boolean search as in devonthink. That would massacre the competition, if any. I wish developers good luck for future enhancements.

This app is mediocre at best and completely unusable for serious search and research. I’ve emailed them about a specific feature that advertised and said to make searching more precise and they STILL haven’t responded. This app does have potential but currently it’s unusable for serious multi-word searches. The programmer didn’t respond to my emails good luck getting feedback.