Search text in PDFs
Type a word or phrase and see every occurrence, page by page, across all the PDFs you drop in.
Drop your PDF files here or click to browse
Stays on your device — nothing is uploaded
Select several files to process them together
How do I search text in PDFs for free?
Open PDFkitt's Search PDF Text tool (pdfkitt.com/search-pdf-text/): choose the PDFs, type the search, search, then open a match. It is free, needs no account and adds no watermark, and it runs entirely in your browser — the file is never uploaded to a server.
- Price
- Free — no trial, no paid tier, no watermark
- Account
- Not needed
- File upload
- None — processed on your device, in the browser
- Input
- PDF files (several at once)
- Limits
- No daily quota and no file-count limit
- Works on
- Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android, in any modern browser
Updated · by the PDFkitt team
Which of these forty contracts mentions “termination for convenience”? Where in the manual is the error code? Drop the files, type the phrase and get a list of every match with file name, page number and surrounding text. Click a result to open that page in the viewer.
Digital PDFs are searched instantly; tick OCR to include scanned pages. The search runs in your browser — nothing is indexed on a server.
How to search text in PDFs
- Choose the PDFs One or a whole folder’s worth.
- Type the search Case-insensitive.
- Search Results list every match with context.
- Open a match Jump to the page in the viewer.
Why use PDFkitt to search PDF Text?
The file is processed inside your browser tab. Disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works.
No signup, no email, no daily quota, no page limit, no watermark. Use it as often as you like.
Phone, tablet or desktop, in Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox. Nothing to install.
Frequently asked questions
Does it support regular expressions?
Not yet — plain phrases only.
Can it search inside scans?
Yes, with the OCR option; it takes a few seconds per page.
Is anything uploaded?
No.