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Search across PDF documents, pages, and annotations for matching text. Nutrient Android SDK offers developers an API for programmatic full-text search, as well as a customizable UI for searching and highlighting relevant matches.

Key capabilities

  • Full-text search — Programmatically or by using the UI
  • Indexed search — Search inside multiple PDFs at once
  • Annotation search — Find specific PDF annotations
  • Customizable UI — Adjust the search form to match your look and feel
  • Extendable — Add annotation, extraction, redaction, and more

Search for text in a PDF How to search for text within a single PDF document

Search for annotations in a PDF How to search for text contained in annotations

Index multiple documents How to index multiple PDF documents for use in indexed full-text search

Indexed search matching options How to configure matching options for indexed full-text search

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