Digitize and search PDFs

Search PDFs on mobile

Digitize your research PDFs using OCR to create a searchable knowledge repository.

PDFs containing math, tables, and figures
Two-column PDFs
Handwritten PDFs
Optimized for scientific papers
Search PDFs

PDF search optimized for scientific documents

Snip is the only AI-powered PDF search with high-accuracy features developed specifically for scientific documents like research papers and lecture notes. Search your documents using text or math as a search term, and even search handwritten PDFs or find search results in tabular data.

Search by math

Use a LaTeX string to search all math in your PDFs.

Use math as a search term

Search by text

Use a text string to search all text in your PDFs.

Use text as a search term

Search handwriting

Search for math or text even in handwritten PDFs.

Search handwritten PDFs

Search tabular data

Search results even include data found in tables.

Search within tabular data

Search AI

Search AI answering what is a hypothesis

Talk to you PDFs right in the app. Enter any query to the search box and get an intelligent response based on information in your PDF repository.

Search AI answering what is a hypothesis

How to digitize and search PDFs

1. Drag or upload your PDF into Snip.

2. Your PDF will be digitized.

3. Your PDF is now searchable and readable even on mobile.

4. You can edit your PDF by creating a Note or export to formats like DOCX or LaTeX.

  • Upload a PDF
  • PDF is being processed
  • Read your PDF on any device
  • Export PDF to other document formats

Digitize and search PDFs on any device

Full mobile browser support of our web app means that you can upload, digitize, search, and read scientific PDFs on even your phone on tablet.

PDF search on all devices
PDF search on mobile

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