PDF Searcher 1.1.0

It’s happened to all of us at some point – you know you have a file somewhere on your computer, but no matter what you do, you cannot locate it. It is an annoying situation that wastes your precious time. If the file you were looking for is a PDF file, then I have some good news for you. There is a software application out there that can easily and rapidly locate PDF files.

The application I am talking about is the Filehunter Software developed PDF Searcher. As its name so adequately points out, the main role of PDF Searcher is to, well, search for PDFs – what else? The application will perform very fast searches and will locate PDF files no matter where they are hiding.

PDF Searcher will look everywhere. It will look on floppy drives (if you still have one), hard drives, CDDVD ROM drives, and network drives. The application will even look inside ZIP archives to uncover that PDF file you cannot find.

To help you out with searching for a PDF file, PDF Searcher comes with a few filtering options. You can find files before certain dates, after specific dates, within specified date ranges, or outside date ranges. You can sort search results by file name, file folder, size, file type, dates, number of occurrences a search string appears in a file, and file attributes in ascending and descending order

Besides helping you locate that PDF file you cannot find, PDF Searcher can do one other thing. The application has an ace up its sleeve – it can convert a PDF file to text file.

The only downside about PDF Searcher is that it comes with a rather unintuitive interface. Sure, the application comes with a handy set of tools to locate PDF files, but to take advantage of these tools you have to put up with a busy interface that can prove to be a bit confusing. Do not be surprised if you feel the need to visit the Help file before you can get started with PDF Searcher.

Pros

• Rapidly locate PDF files
• Convert PDF to text
• Up to 90 multiple search strings

Cons

• Free to try: you can use PDF Searcher free of charge only during a trial period of 30 days
• The interface is rather unintuitive, rather busy
• You may need to read the Help file before getting started with PDF Searcher

About Filehunter Software
Details on Filehunter Software and its products are available on the developer’s official site here.

PDF Searcher has been reviewed by George Norman on 08 Jul 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated PDF Searcher 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent