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24 alternatives to Search text in PDF files
Quickly find a desired information
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Search multiple documents insanely fast
2017 · pdfsearchapp.com · its alternatives →
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PDF Query▲80Quickly search and find what you need within any PDF
2023 · pdfquery.com · its alternatives →
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Search multiple documents insanely fast
2017 · pdfsearchapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I've just finished a rebuild of this function and added a lot of new features: info, page index, minimap, inverted index,... I think it may be useful for inspection, debugging or just as a learning resource showcasing the PDF file format. This is a pet project and I would be happy to receive some feedback! Regards
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SeekFast▲99Quickly and easily search text in files on your computer
2021 · seekfast.org · its alternatives →
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2015 · searchablepdfs.org · its alternatives →
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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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2021 · gutensearch.com · its alternatives →
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Sifty Search▲63Online tool for searching through documents. CTRL+F on crack
2019 · its alternatives →
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An application that finds desired words in a hard-copy paper
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Convert Scanned PDFs to Selectable By OCR
Jan 2026 · searchablepdf.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I've build a simple tool to index and search your documents. This uses two great open source libraries: apache tika (for extracting content from docs) and apache lucene (for searching). It's been built with kotlin ktor as a web framework. You can index all kind of files (i.e doc, docx, xls, ppt, pdf, txt, html even ORC pdfs) and then search them using very advanced queries like "always contain X", "never contain X", "X near Y", wildcard search, proper stemming support etc. We're using it on my work where we have hundreds of thousands of doc/docx/pdf files and it works…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Think interactive grep for text files, PDFs, DOCXs, etc, but word/token based instead of regex and line based, so you can search across lines easily. Docfd aims to provide good UX via integration with common text editors and PDF viewers, so you can jump directly to a search result with a single key press. --- I originally wrote this tool to help me dig through text/markdown notes, since very often I want to search for a phrase of sorts that may span across multiple lines, but constructing the corresponding multiline regex is a bit painful (especially painful if I want to account…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Search in multiple PDF files at once with csv list support
Mar 2026 · pdfsleuth.com · its alternatives →
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PDF Tools▲14Free browser-based PDF toolkit — no uploads, no sign-up
2025 · pdf-vert.com · its alternatives →
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ToolPDFs▲2557 private document tools that run in your browser
Aug 2026 · toolpdfs.com · its alternatives →
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Free online tool to count words in pdfs
2025 · pdfwordcount.org · its alternatives →
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hotpdf is a fast PDF parsing library to extract text and find text within PDF documents built on top of pdfminer.six - weareprestatech/hotpdf
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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How it works: 1. Connect Dropbox/OneDrive account (or use the web uploader). 2. Drag n drop PDF files to the Input folder. 3. Get searchable PDFs in Output folder.
2024 · getsearchablepdf.com · its alternatives →
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