Quick Search Files & Find Text

Find the words inside your files.

A local-first macOS search app for the folders you choose. Search by file name, extension, document content, exclude keywords, or a combination of fields, then preview matching text with highlights on the right. Pro adds Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for scanned PDFs and images.

macOS full-text search Local index on your Mac Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with Pro
MAC Find Text
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Download on the App Store for document-heavy Mac folders and cloud-synced folders available locally.

Formats PDFs, Office files, images
Fields Name, type, content, exclude
Local Search results on your Mac
OCR Search scans, newspapers, and old books

App preview

See Find Text in action.

Search across folders by file name, extension, document content, and OCR-recognized text. Results and previews highlight matching words so you can confirm the right file before opening it.

Quick Search Files & Find Text macOS app searching multiple content keywords in Word documents
Multi-keyword document search Search up to three content keywords, such as “ai technical automation”, with separate highlight colors across matching documents.
Quick Search Files & Find Text macOS app using OCR to find cowboy text in a photographed old book page
OCR image search Use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to find printed words in photographed pages, old books, scans, and images.

Explore

Learn the app and the everyday search workflows.

Start with the macOS overview, then use short guides for content search, OCR, and multi-keyword highlighting.

Find Text for macOS

See how the Mac app searches file names, file types, document content, and scanned text in selected folders.

Guides

Learn practical workflows for finding words inside PDFs, Word files, scans, old books, and document archives.

OCR Guide

Use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to search scanned PDFs, English newspapers, old books, and images.

Privacy

Local-first by design. Your files and indexes stay on your Mac.