I just tried WinFindr and I am impressed with its speed and flexibility. I tested the file content search with docx and txt and it worked well. However, on PDF content search it missed much of what I searched for. The main PDFs I searched were invoices saved as PDFs from QuickBooks and downloaded bank statements. I know these are text PDFs because I can select and copy text from the PDF. Also, I built a rudimentary PDF content search program in Python with AI and it was able to find the right files using the same search string. I even took a txt file and printed using the Microsoft Print to PDF function and WinFindr was unable to search it. I am using version 1.6.

Other than this issue, WinFindr is a great search tool.

Thank you for your feedback! We are about to release a major update to WinFindr that addresses the PDF searching issue. The main problem is that there are literally dozens of different PDF file formats and different ways how text can be embedded to a PDF file, and the current WinFindr version only supports some of them. The next version supports, as far as I know, all of these.

That is great to hear! Thanks for the update.