An advanced, privacy-first browser utility to search, locate, and visually highlight text in PDF documents. Features exact phrase matching, wildcard RegEx pattern search (emails, IBANs, dates, phone numbers), Arabic/Urdu diacritic normalization, page scope filtering, and multi-format result exporting all performed locally on your device without server uploads.
Find Text in PDF
Advanced Browser-Based Text Search, Multi-Lingual Matcher & Visual Highlighter
Drag & Drop PDF File Here
or click anywhere to select a document from your device
PDF
document.pdf
Indexing Text Layer...
Quick RegEx Presets:
📧 Emails
📞 Phone Numbers
📅 Dates
🏦 IBAN / Bank
💰 Currency
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💡 How Browser-Based PDF Visual Searching Works ▼
This tool extracts text streams directly inside your browser using JavaScript and PDF.js.
By analyzing internal vector transformation matrices, it computes precise bounding box coordinates for matched keywords and paints a visual highlight overlay on top of the rendered PDF page without modifying or re-saving your original file.
🔍 Useful Regular Expressions (RegEx) Cheat-Sheet ▼
| Target Data | RegEx Pattern | Example Match |
|---|---|---|
| Email Addresses | \b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z|a-z]{2,}\b |
user@riazhub.com |
| Phone Numbers | \b(?:\+?\d{1,3}[-.\s]?)?\(?\d{3}\)?[-.\s]?\d{3}[-.\s]?\d{4}\b |
+1 (555) 019-2834 |
| Dates (YYYY-MM-DD) | \b\d{4}[-/\.]\d{1,2}[-/\.]\d{1,2}\b |
2026-08-19 |
| IBAN / Bank Account | \b[A-Z]{2}\d{2}[A-Z0-9]{11,30}\b |
GB29NWBK60161331926819 |
📄 Digital Native PDFs vs Scanned Image PDFs ▼
Digital Native PDFs contain searchable vector text streams generated by word processors (Word, Google Docs, InDesign, LaTeX).
Scanned PDFs are flat image files captured via physical scanner or camera. Because they contain no embedded digital text layer, text cannot be selected or searched without prior Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
Scanned PDFs are flat image files captured via physical scanner or camera. Because they contain no embedded digital text layer, text cannot be selected or searched without prior Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
🔒 100% Client-Side Privacy Guarantee ▼
Your privacy is fully protected. All PDF parsing, string tokenization, regex evaluation, and visual rendering happen locally inside your web browser. No PDF documents, contracts, or search terms are ever uploaded or transmitted to any server.
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