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Search the words inside your documents, not just their filenames.

3 min read · Updated June 28, 2026


The single most useful thing about Stoatify is that you can forget where you filed something. Search reads the text inside every document, so you find a policy by typing the insurer's name even when the file is called scan_0042.pdf.

Search results in Stoatify, filtered to an insurance policy by a word found inside the document
Type what a document says, not what it's named.

How to search

  1. 1Click the search bar at the top of any screen (or press /).
  2. 2Type a word or phrase you know appears in the document.
  3. 3Narrow the results with the category, tag and date filters beside them.

Behind the scenes, on-device OCR transcribes your scans and photos into searchable text the moment they're uploaded, and nothing leaves your host to do it.

Tip

Need precision? Structured queries like category:Insurance tag:auto due:<2026-01 combine freely with keywords. See Advanced search queries.

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