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Document Search

Fast and Secure Search for more than 80 document types and format families.

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GroupDocs.Search App

Supported Document Formats

Microsoft Office, Visio & Project
  • Word: DOC, DOCX, DOT, DOTX, DOCM, DOTM, RTF
  • Excel: XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSB, XLT, XLTM, XLTX, XLA, XLAM
  • PowerPoint: PPT, PPTX, PPS, POT, POTM, POTX, PPSX, PPSM, PPTM
  • Visio: VSD, VSS
  • Project: MPP
  • Outlook: MSG, EML, EMLX
  • Outlook Data Files: PST, OST
  • OneNote: ONE
OpenDocument & Other Formats
  • Open Document Formats: ODT, OTT, ODS, ODP, OTS
  • Portable Document Format: PDF
  • Photoshop: PSD
  • Images (metadata & text): BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, multi-page TIFF, WebP, JP2, JPF, JPX, JPM
  • Metafiles: EMF, WMF
  • Web: HTML, MHT, MHTML, XHTML
  • Text: TXT, CSV, TSV
  • Audio & Video (metadata): ASF, AVI, FLV, MOV, QT, MP3, WAV
  • Other: DjVu, DICOM, EPUB, FB2, CHM, XML, MD, TORRENT, ZIP

Document search app is a full-text search within the textual content of documents. The full-text search is a two-stage process: Full-text indexing of documents and text lookup in the created index.

At the stage of indexing, text from documents is extracted and added to the index – an optimized structure containing information about in which documents and at what positions each word occurs.
At the search stage, the index allows you to very quickly find documents containing words from the query.
Further special algorithms determine which documents contain the entire phrase you are looking for.

This web application is built using search engine implemented in the GroupDocs.Search for .NET library and has the following features:

Search results can be presented:

How to search in document

  • Click inside the file drop area to upload a document file or drag & drop a file.
  • Once upload completes, you'll be redirected to the search application.
  • Enter your search query in the search bar.
  • Get search results by clicking the search button.
  • Add more documents with "Add files" button.
  • Select added documents to include them into the index and perform searches

Frequently asked questions

  • How does the online app Document Search work?

    The search is performed in two stages. First, documents are added to an index. And only then the search is performed in the index.

  • What about privacy, is it safe to use the online app Document Search?

    Access to your folder with uploaded and indexed files is only available to someone who has a link. All uploaded files are deleted from the servers after 24 hours.

  • Is an internet connection required to use the online app Document Search?

    This application is client-server. If you lose your internet connection while using the app, you won't be able to get search results.

  • Can I search on Linux, Mac OS, Android?

    You can search from any device, regardless of the operating system, that has a modern browser and an internet connection.
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