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24 alternatives to PDF Search for Mac

Search multiple documents insanely fast

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PDF Search for Mac launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   PDF Search for iPhone and iPad▲99

   Search multiple documents insanely fast

   2017 · pdfsearchapp.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   PDF Search▲2

   Search multiple documents insanely fast

   2020 · pdfsearch.app · its alternatives →

3. 3
   PDF Query▲80

   Quickly search and find what you need within any PDF

   2023 · pdfquery.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Meta Search▲360

   Search your Desktop, Google Drive, Dropbox, Gmail, Evernote.

   2016 · finance.yahoo.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   PDF.ai▲677

   Chat with any document

   2023 · pdf.ai · its alternatives →

6. 6
   PDFify▲230

   Free macOS text recognition, PDF composition & compression

   2018 · pdfify.app · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Rapid Doc▲68

   All in one PDF tools and scanner app

   2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   DocSearch▲259

   The easiest way to add search to your documentation

   2015 · community.algolia.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Searchable.ai▲316

   One search across all your local, cloud and app files

   2021 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Lightweight PDF▲151

    A free PDF compressor for Mac

    2019 · lightweightpdf.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    SeekFast▲99

    Quickly and easily search text in files on your computer

    2021 · seekfast.org · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Doc Scan▲63

    Help you scan and organize hundreds of documents efficiently

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Search text in PDF files▲9

    Quickly find a desired information

    2025 · find-in-files.web.app · its alternatives →

14. 14
    PDF Expert for Mac▲187

    The best PDF viewer, editor, and form filler available.

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Sifty Search▲63

    Online tool for searching through documents. CTRL+F on crack

    2019 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Doc Scanner▲106

    A powerful document scanning app

    2019 · zoho.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Doc Scanner for Mac▲119

    Scan documents and digitize them flawlessly on your Mac

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    BeyondPDF▲148

    Search ideas within PDFs

    2024 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    ABBYY Fine Scanner 5▲122

    Scan and recognize multipage documents in PDF or JPG

    2015 · pdf.abbyy.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    `pdf2searchablepdf` command-line tool to make PDF have searchable text▲40

    Easily perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on PDFs. `pdf2searchablepdf input.pdf` = voila! "input_searchable.pdf" is created & now has searchable text

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tidy▲98

    Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.

    Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.com · its alternatives →

22. 22CS
    Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs▲73

    2015 · searchablepdfs.org · its alternatives →

23. 23
    macOS App 'PDF Content Search'▲3

    Document search on another level

    2023 · store.juergenkoller.software · its alternatives →

24. 24
    TurboScan▲61

    Quickly scan multipage docs.

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →