Comparison

PDF Search PRO vs Named entity recognition

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

PDF Search PRO

This app offers a powerful solution for searching through multiple documents quickly using AI and NLP. It includes features like OCR for text recognition in scanned documents and images, and allows for unified searching across devices.

Highlights
  • AI-powered document search
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Built-in OCR for text recognition
  • Document scanning to PDF
  • Exportable search results
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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PDF Search PRO turns everything you own into a library you can search in the time it takes to type. Books, textbooks, lecture notes, contracts, papers and manuals, all ranked by how well they answer you. Ask a question in plain words and get an answer, with the exact pages it came from. Everything is included from the first launch. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Built for people who live in documents: students, lawyers and researchers. ASK YOUR LIBRARY ANYTHING AI Chat answers questions about your library in plain language. Ask "can I end my lease early?" and it searches your documents, reads the pages that matter, and answers, citing the page each fact came from so you can check it yourself. • Chat about your whole library, or the one document you are reading • Every answer carries page references you can tap • Conversations are saved, so you can pick one up later • Runs on your device, or on Apple's Private Cloud Compute AI Chat needs Apple Intelligence: an iPhone 15 Pro or later, or an iPad with an M-series chip, running iOS 26 or later. A FINDER THAT RANKS, NOT JUST MATCHES Ordinary search tells you a word exists somewhere. PDF Search PRO scores every page on how well it answers you: where the words appear, how close together they are, whether they land in a heading. The strongest pages come first. • Every ranked result, grouped by book or document • Jump straight to the page, your words highlighted in context • Search everything at once, or narrow to a folder or tag • Search only the table of contents, match case, skip duplicates • Export and share results LANGUAGE, NOT JUST LETTERS The indexer understands the shape of a word. Look for "hike" and find "hiking"; look for "children" and find "child". Plurals, stems and near matches are covered too. WORDS LOCKED IN IMAGES Text recognition reads photographed pages, scanned contracts and screenshots of slides, and adds every word to your index. A photo of a page becomes as searchable as the page itself, in every language your device supports. The built-in scanner turns paper, notes and cards into PDFs and files them with everything else, searchable from the moment they land. NOTES, HIGHLIGHTS AND MARKUP • Highlight, underline and strike through while you read • Bookmarks with notes, gathered in one place across every book • A document's table of contents, for moving around a long textbook quickly AN ORGANIZER FOR A LARGE LIBRARY • Folders on device or in iCloud, plus any folder or file you point it at • Tags, to cut across folders however you think • Index status at a glance: what is indexed and what is queued • PDFs alongside Word and PowerPoint, Pages and Keynote, rich text, plain text, source code and saved web pages YOUR MAC, IN YOUR POCKET Run PDF Search on your Mac and sync over Wi-Fi with a single click. Documents come across with their index intact, so your iPhone or iPad does not have to do the work twice. OFFLINE AND PRIVATE Indexing and search happen entirely on your device and work without a connection. No account and no tracking. Your documents stay yours. PAY ONCE PDF Search PRO is a one-time purchase. Every feature above is yours on every iPhone and iPad signed in to your Apple Account, with no renewals. Privacy Policy: https://pdfsearch.mozkan.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://pdfsearch.mozkan.com/terms.html

About

Named entity recognition

Features
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Identifying people, places, and organizations by using a linguistic tagger to perform named entity recognition(NER) on a string. ※Named entity recognition(NER)

Screenshots

PDF Search PRO4 screens
Named entity recognition1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Named entity recognition at Free against PDF Search PRO's $44.99. Named entity recognition also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). PDF Search PRO's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Named entity recognition is free to download; PDF Search PRO costs $44.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Search PRO ships an update monthly, Named entity recognition fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PDF Search PRO versus Named entity recognition: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF Search PRONamed entity recognition
Price$44.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.8.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMuharrem OzkanHideaki Uchikoshi

In-app purchases

None

PDF Search PRO

No in-app purchases

None

Named entity recognition

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Search PRO free?
PDF Search PRO costs $44.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Named entity recognition free?
Named entity recognition is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PDF Search PRO or Named entity recognition have ads?
Named entity recognition shows ads; PDF Search PRO does not.
Which is updated more often, PDF Search PRO or Named entity recognition?
PDF Search PRO ships an update monthly, and Named entity recognition fortnightly. Most recently, PDF Search PRO was updated on October 25, 2026 and Named entity recognition on October 27, 2026.

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