# PDF Search

> AI Search for Documents

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1303227688](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1303227688)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1303227688`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Muharrem Ozkan
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.30 / 5 (128 ratings)
- **Version:** 8.31
- **Last updated:** 2024-05-19
- **First published:** 2017-11-09
- **Size:** 35 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-search/id1303227688)
- **Website:** [https://www.pdfsearch.app](https://www.pdfsearch.app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://pdfsearch.app/privacy.html](https://pdfsearch.app/privacy.html)

## Description

Introducing PDF Search: The Ultimate Document Search Solution. PDF Search uses AI-powered NLP to rank results by relevance, supports tokenization and lemmatization, and includes built-in OCR for text recognition, a scanner to convert pages to searchable PDFs, Table of Contents search, and exportable search results. It also offers Table of Contents search for quick navigation through large document collections.

Experience a unified search experience across devices—index and search on your Mac, then access your files from your iPhone or iPad with Wi‑Fi sync. OCR supports English and multiple languages on supported iOS versions (note: OCR requires iOS 13+). A PDF Search Pro subscription is available for additional features.

## Rankings

- #126,842 — Overall
- #10 — default search
- #24 — search box
- #37 — search bar
- #53 — searchable
- #54 — autocomplete

## Review summary

Users praise PDF Search for fast, accurate, cross-document search across PDFs and even Word files, with AI-driven ranking. However, many reviews report crashes during indexing and use, unreliable indexing that leaves many files unindexed, and limited sorting options that make results feel poorly organized.

### Pros

- Fast indexing and searching across large collections of PDFs and documents
- Accurate results with AI-based ranking and fast overall performance
- Cross-document and cross-format search (including books/series and even Word documents) in one place
- Helpful keyboard shortcuts and smooth navigation between documents and results
- Evidence of responsive developer support and issue resolution in some reviews

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and instability during indexing and scrolling
- Unreliable indexing: files not consistently indexed or indexing fails for many PDFs
- Sorting and result ordering is often not intuitive or lacks flexibility

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1303227688)