Search for text inside a PDF in your browser — every match with page, context and exact offsets. Counts included; nothing is uploaded.
Scanned PDFs carry no text layer — run the OCR tool first if this PDF came from a scanner.
Choose a PDF, type a search, and every match appears here with page and context.
Your file is never sent to a server. It is read and processed by your own browser, and the results are not stored.
Every PDF viewer has Ctrl+F, but viewers don’t give you an inventory: how many times the term appears, on which pages, in what context, and an exportable list. For reviewing contracts, audits and e-discovery prep, the count and the list are the deliverable.
Each match reports its page, the surrounding context and its character offset — enough to act on without reopening the document blindly.
Offsets are positions in the extracted text, not in the file. They are exact for the page they belong to, which makes overlap and follow-up checks trivial — and they are not character counts in the rendered page.
No. PDF Text Search runs in your browser, and the file is read there rather than sent to a server for processing. Our host still sees ordinary page-request metadata, which is described on the privacy page.
Yes, PDF Text Search is free, with no paid tier, no account, and no watermark added to your output. The limits are technical rather than commercial: file size, page count and supported formats are listed on this page.
PDF Text Search supports .pdf files up to 100MB directly in your browser.
No — a scanned page has no text layer, so there is nothing to match. Use the OCR tool first to give the document text, then search it.
Both are options; the default is case-insensitive substring search, which matches what most readers actually want.
No — it is a finder, not a viewer. You get page numbers, contexts and offsets, plus a CSV to work from.
No. Text extraction and matching happen in this tab; nothing leaves your device.