PDF Content Search

To macOS, a scanned invoice is just a picture. PDF Content Search reads the text inside it, so you can find it like any other document. It works on scanned PDFs, photos, screenshots, and plain text files. Text recognition runs on your Mac, and the index updates when your files change.

Subjects, message bodies, and attachment contents show up right next to your files. Open an attachment straight from a result. Or reveal the original message in Mail with one keystroke.

Type "Mueller" and it finds "Müller" too. Accents and umlauts just work. Partial word search helps with those very long German compound words. The app is available in 23 languages.

Word, Excel, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote files get indexed too. Your whole archive lives in one search box. These files are parsed by the app's own service, which is included with Setapp at no extra cost.

Narrow a decade of paperwork down to a single quarter. Then open the preview, where matches are highlighted. You'll see right away why a document came up.

Choose a folder, let the first analysis finish, and search. Scanned PDFs, images, and text files never leave your Mac. It's built for freelancers, households, and small offices with years of scans.