OCR your scans. Find any word across every document.
Drop in scanned PDFs and photos of documents. PaperFind reads them with Apple's on-device text recognition, saves searchable PDFs you can select and copy from, and lets you find any phrase across your entire archive — by exact text or by meaning. Nothing is ever uploaded. It all runs on your Mac, even with the Wi-Fi off.
Make any scan searchable
Image-only PDFs and photos become real searchable documents with an invisible, selectable text layer — the file looks identical, but you can find, select, and copy the text.
Find across everything
One search box over your whole document library. Full-text for exact phrases; semantic search finds the right page even when you don't remember the exact words.
Provably private
OCR runs through Apple's on-device engine. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Unplug the network and PaperFind still works — because your documents never leave the machine.
The FineReader you can just buy again
ABBYY FineReader for Mac stopped getting updates. Acrobat and the rest moved to monthly subscriptions for the same job. PaperFind does the core work — OCR, searchable PDFs, and search across your archive — as a Mac app you own, not rent.
Simple, honest pricing
$79 — with a free trial, no account needed. It's a subscription that vests into a perpetual license after 12 months: stop paying and you keep the last version you paid for, forever. Your documents are yours; so is the software.
- Free: OCR and export searchable PDFs one file at a time; full-text search your library.
- Pro: watch-folders that auto-OCR everything you drop in, semantic (meaning-based) search, and batch-OCR whole folders at once.