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Search inside your PDFs — including the scanned ones.

Getting started

Tap Try the demo on the first screen. DocFind creates a few sample documents on your device, indexes them, runs text recognition on a scanned receipt, and searches them — no files and no setup needed. Leaving the demo removes every trace of it.

To use your own files, tap Add PDFs and pick them with your phone's own file picker.

Common questions

I searched for a word I can see in my document, and DocFind found nothing.

That document is almost certainly a scan — a picture of text rather than text. DocFind will tell you when a library contains pages that are not searchable yet, and offers Search inside (OCR) to read them. Once that finishes, the words become searchable and results found that way are labelled OCR.

How good is the text recognition?

It runs on your own device — Google's ML Kit on Android, Apple's Vision on iPhone — and it is good on clean scans. Faint, skewed, very low resolution, or handwritten pages will produce mistakes. DocFind never claims a page is perfect — if a match looks wrong, open the page and check it against the original.

Does DocFind upload my documents?

No. Everything that touches your documents — indexing, searching, text recognition and exporting — happens on your device, and all of it works with no connection at all. On iPhone the app has no network capability whatsoever. On Android the only thing that uses the network is Google Play, for prices and for whether you own Pro; your documents are no part of that. See the privacy policy.

What does DocFind Pro add?

Unlimited documents and libraries, unlimited on-device text recognition, and unlimited exports of your results as CSV, Markdown, a formatted PDF report, or a new PDF containing only the pages that matched. DocFind Pro is available monthly, yearly, or as a single payment that does not renew. The free tier keeps one library of up to 25 documents, and on both iPhone and Android it also includes 10 pages of text recognition and 10 exports every month.

I bought Pro and it is not showing.

Open Settings in the app and tap Restore Purchases. Make sure you are signed in to the same account you bought with — your Google Account on Android, your Apple Account on iPhone. If it still does not appear, email us.

How do I cancel a subscription?

In the store you bought it from, not in DocFind. On Android: the Play Store app → your profile → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions. On iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions. The one-time lifetime purchase is not a subscription and does not renew.

Can I get a refund?

Refunds are handled by the store, not by us. On Android, through Google Play at your Google Play order history. On iPhone, through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. We cannot issue them ourselves, but do tell us what went wrong.

A document disappeared, or DocFind says it cannot find a file.

DocFind remembers where your files live rather than copying them. If a file was moved, renamed or deleted by your file manager — Files on iPhone, whichever one you use on Android — DocFind will say so and offer to point at it again.

Indexing a large document is slow.

Text recognition on scanned pages is the slow part — it is real work, done on your device. You can leave the screen and come back; DocFind reports progress and tells you honestly how much is left.

Accessibility

DocFind supports the screen reader on both platforms — TalkBack on Android, VoiceOver on iPhone — along with large text sizes and both light and dark appearance. If something is unreadable or unreachable for you, please tell us — that is a bug, and we will treat it as one.

Requirements

Android Android 7.0 or later. Get it on Google Play.

iPhone iOS 17 or later. Get it on the App Store.

Privacy

DocFind privacy policy — the short version is that DocFind collects nothing about you.