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Best Mac apps to search inside PDFs & scans

Find text in thousands of documents.

  1. 1. PDF Search Find anything in a PDF with AI Search inside PDFs & scans Setapp 92% · 370 ratings
  2. 2. PDF Content Search Search inside scanned files Search inside PDFs & scans Sold separately
  3. 3. PDF Owl Build the table of contents using on-device AI. Plus a reader-focused PDF viewer Edit, sign & annotate PDFs Sold separately
  4. 4. Physical Scanner Connect Scan & digitize documents Mac App Store
  5. 5. Kepter A Finder alternative: a drawer of your files you recognise on sight. Find files fast Sold separately
  6. 6. Brother iPrint&Scan Scan & digitize documents Mac App Store
  7. 7. Prizmo Remix Automate document scanning & processing Scan & digitize documents Setapp 96% · 28 ratings
  8. 8. PDF Reader for Adobe PDF Edit, sign & annotate PDFs Mac App Store
  9. 9. PDFgear PDF Editor & Reader Edit, sign & annotate PDFs Mac App Store

Related tasks

Edit, sign & annotate PDFs 17 Copy text from images 30 Scan & digitize documents 12 Organize & clean up folders 31 Find files fast 15 Rename files in bulk 21

Questions

What is the best Mac app to search inside PDFs & scans?
PDF Search is the top pick here: Find anything in a PDF with AI. Also worth a look: PDF Content Search, PDF Owl.
Are these apps part of a Setapp membership?
2 of 9 apps are included in a Setapp membership; the rest are sold separately.
Do they run natively on Apple Silicon?
5 of 9 apps run natively on M-series Macs.