Web · 2017-11-20

Search through PDFs on iPhone or Mac using AI – #Startups

Searching through PDF documents 1 at a time can be a major time waste, especially if you rely on simple word or pattern matching. PDF Search uses an advanced AI-based relevancy check algorithm that is similar to how humans search, but with the power of a computing device.

This app can quickly search through thousands of documents & find the most relevant pages instantly. PDF Search analyzes & searches through all your PDFs & calculates the pages that are the most relevant for any term you may be looking for.

Other search tools merely see if a term exists within a document by using simple pattern matching, & go on to list out a document list. Then you look at each document 1 at a time & you determine the relevancy of each document yourself.

PDF Search, on the other hand, analyzes each page separately & actually checks for relevancy by analyzing each document’s pages separately & ranks them for relevancy according to your given keywords. According to the product Site, this is more in keeping with how humans go about searching.

When a person searches through a document, he’ll show more interest in a page if a title in it contains the keywords you’re looking for (that is, emphasis through importance order is shown). When ranking, the app also takes into account other factors like: word distance, font size, font weight, keyword density & document update date.

PDF Search also has other interesting features that makes navigation easier: The 1st page of each document is displayed in the ranked list together with the search term highlighted. It also has powerful filtering to weed out precise results.

According to the PDF Search product page, the app is especially useful in the following scenarios:

  • Work – a powerful search assistant at meetings
  • School – handy for research & homework assignments
  • Home – a time saver when you’re looking for something in your personal documents

Paid app PDF Search was developed by a Turkey-based startup, led by Muharrem Ozkan. 

– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review – 
 
Image Credit: PDF Search

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