Search & OCR

Find documents by what they say, not just what they're named.

9 articles

How search works

OCR reads your documents so you can search their contents, not just their names.

The exact surface a keyword covers, what needs an operator, and how results are ordered.

Field operators, AND/OR/NOT, quoted phrases, ranges, and flexible dates in the search bar.

The Category, Tag, Field, and date popovers that slice the vault at a click.

Copy-paste queries for the searches you'll run again and again.

What Stoatify does to every upload so its words become searchable.

25 recognition languages, per-document overrides, office previews, and PDF/A archival.

What PDF/A-2b preserves, which files qualify, and how to turn archival copies on.

The handful of reasons a search comes up empty, and how to fix each.