The PDF apps you've likely used the most-Adobe Reader, Apple iBooks, Windows Reader-are PDF reader apps. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site-we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review. We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. Note, however, that this is 'clean' document properly compiled from LaTeX source, and on a file that's been scanned and OCRed it could take longer:įinally, by choosing Options… → Annotate search results → Highlight one can add permanent marks to the document and also save the changes to the PDF file:ĭisclaimer: I am only a user, not a developer of PDF-XChange Editor and I'm not affiliated with Tracker software company.All of our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. Here, it only took one second to find 1139 entries in a 1300-page document, which I think is quite fast.

Using Search… ( Ctrl + Shift + F) tool for additional gathering of a complete list for all encounters. Free version of PDF-XChange Editor (Windows, Linux via Wine) highlights all entries for the keyword, and on top of that adds colored ticks on the scrollbar à la Chromium.Īlso, navigation (scrolling/jumping back and forth across pages) is as fast and the program remains as responsive as simpler yet more lightweight alternatives such as MuPDF or Sumatra PDF even when working with huge PDF files (hundreds of megabytes, thousands pages with illustrations).Īll instances of a given word can be displayed by using Find… ( Ctrl + F) tool for a quick preliminary lookup:

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