# DocFind: Search Inside PDFs — Scanned PDFs too — offline OCR > Scanned PDFs too — offline OCR (iPhone/iPad app by Jyoti Burujpatte.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/docfind-search-inside-pdfs/id6801723267 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jyoti Burujpatte](https://appshunter.io/developer/1894632415) - Category: Productivity, Business - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-21 - Data updated: 2026-10-09 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/docfind-search-inside-pdfs/id6801723267/reviews.md ## What is DocFind? DocFind searches inside many PDFs at once on your iPhone — scanned PDFs included — and opens each result at the page where your words appear, highlighted. Nothing is uploaded: indexing, searching and reading scanned pages all happen on your device. Most PDF apps can open one file and find a word on the page you are looking at. DocFind builds a searchable index of an entire library, so one query returns every match across every document, ranked, with the page number and the surrounding sentence. SCANNED PDFs ARE SEARCHABLE TOO A scanned document is a picture of text. Ordinary search finds nothing in it, which is why so many of your files seem to be invisible. DocFind runs on-device OCR over scanned pages and folds the recognised words straight into the same index — so a word that exists only as pixels becomes a word you can find. Results found this way are labelled OCR, so you always know where a match came from. EVERYTHING HAPPENS ON YOUR PHONE DocFind has no accounts, no sign-in, no servers and no ads. DocFind itself contains no networking code — searching, indexing, OCR and export never touch a connection — so your documents are never uploaded; there is nowhere to upload them to. The only web content it shows is its own website and privacy policy, and Apple's standard licence agreement, in Apple's Safari sheet, which the app cannot read. Nothing is collected about you. WHAT YOU GET • Search across a whole library of PDFs in one query • Ranked results with page numbers and a snippet of the matching sentence • Tap a result to open the page with the match highlighted, and step through matches • On-device OCR for scanned and photographed documents, with OCR-sourced hits labelled • Persistent libraries — index once, then search again any time without re-indexing • Honest progress and honest limits: DocFind tells you when a page is not searchable yet, and why • Full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type, and light and dark appearance TRY IT WITH NO SETUP Tap "Try the demo" on the first screen. DocFind creates sample documents on your device, indexes them, runs OCR on a scanned receipt and searches them — no files, no account, no waiting. Leaving the demo removes every trace of it. FREE AND PRO DocFind is free to use as a complete keyword search: unlimited searches, unlimited search terms, and every result shown — never a truncated list. The free tier covers one library of up to 25 documents, and it includes 10 pages of OCR and 10 exports every month — enough to watch a scan become searchable, and enough again next month, before you decide. DocFind Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a single payment, and adds: • Unlimited documents and unlimited libraries • Unlimited on-device OCR • Unlimited exports — as CSV, as Markdown, as a formatted PDF report, or as a new PDF containing only the pages that matched SUBSCRIPTION TERMS The monthly and yearly plans are auto-renewable subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically for the same period unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and the account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of that. Manage your plan or turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings at any time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docfindapp.com/privacy PRIVACY DocFind collects nothing, and it cannot: there is no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK and no networking code in the app. Files are opened only when you choose them, through the system file picker. Exports leave your device only if you deliberately send them somewhere using the share sheet. Requires iOS 17 or later. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | DocFind Pro Yearly | $14.99 | per year | | DocFind Pro Monthly | $4.99 | per month | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | DocFind Pro | $29.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.3 — 2026-10-03 A SHORTER ROUTE TO TELLING US WHAT YOU THINK • A Rate DocFind row in Settings, under Help & Support. • Feedback now reaches support@docfindapp.com, a real support address rather than a personal mailbox. • A Website row in Settings, under About, and a More Apps section listing our other apps. These pages, the privacy policy and the licence agreement open inside DocFind instead of sending you out to Safari. • After you open your second search result, a card asks once what DocFind should do better. It opens a mail in your own mail app; nothing is sent on its own. How DocFind works has not changed: searching, indexing, reading scanned pages and export all happen on your device, with no account, no cloud and no ads. The only web content it shows is its own website and privacy policy, and Apple's standard licence agreement, in Apple's Safari sheet, which the app cannot read. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-28 YOUR FREE ALLOWANCE NOW REFRESHES EVERY MONTH Both of the free tier's allowances used to be one-off: spend them and they were gone for the life of the install. They are monthly now. • 10 pages of on-device OCR every month — enough to take a short scanned document from cover to cover, and enough again next month. • 10 exports every month, in any of the four formats. • Every screen that names a budget now says which month it is counting and the date the next one starts, so nothing runs out without warning. Unchanged: one library of up to 25 documents, unlimited searches, unlimited search terms, and every result shown. And everything still happens on your device — no account, no cloud, no ads, and no network capability in the app at all. ### 1.1 — 2026-08-26 Everything here runs on your device, the way it always has — no account, no cloud, no ads. SEARCH THE WAY YOU THINK • Results now appear as you type. • A new mode picker sits under the search field. Advanced understands AND, OR, NOT, NEAR and wildcards; Regular expression is there for the searches nothing else can express. Both are part of Pro. FIND YOUR DOCUMENTS FROM ANYWHERE • Your indexed documents can appear in Spotlight, so a half-remembered phrase typed on the Home Screen opens the right file. Off by default, Pro only, and switching it off removes them again. • Siri can search your documents out loud, and Shortcuts can run the same search inside any automation you build. The search itself still happens entirely on this phone. CLEARER RESULTS • A snippet now highlights every term that matched it, not just the first. • A snippet says how many matches it holds, so a page full of hits reads as one result instead of a wall of near-identical ones. • Searching part of a word now reports the whole word that was found. • The Reader keeps finding matches past the first fifty on a long document. • CSV exports record which matches came from OCR, which Markdown and the PDF report already did. OCR THAT FINISHES WITHOUT YOU WATCHING • Pro can work through the OCR backlog in the background while the phone is charging. MORE WAYS TO GET PRO • DocFind Pro now comes monthly, yearly, or as a single payment — whichever suits you. • The free tier now includes five exports, so you can see exactly what DocFind produces before you decide. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-21 No release notes. ## Apps similar to DocFind | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [PDF Beacon: Quick Search](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pdf-beacon-quick-search/id6799241977) | — | Free | Productivity | | [SwiftSearch in PDFs](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/swiftsearch-in-pdfs/id6737172406) | — | Free | Productivity | | [PDFWise – PDF Reader & Tools](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pdfwise-pdf-reader-and-tools/id6773661977) | 5.0 (7) | Free | Productivity | | [CountedDays: Countdown Widget](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/counteddays-countdown-widget/id6767652250) | — | Free | Productivity | | [Countdown: Days Until Widget](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/countdown-days-until-widget/id6768804877) | 4.6 (5) | Free | Productivity | | [Airport Notes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/airport-notes/id1445887122) | — | Free | Productivity | ## More apps by Jyoti Burujpatte - [Adinand Email Cleaner](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/adinand-email-cleaner/id6778240674) - [SubSense: Sub Organiser](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/subsense-sub-organiser/id6787562040) All apps by Jyoti Burujpatte: https://appshunter.io/developer/1894632415 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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