PDF search library for Android

Search across PDF documents, pages, and annotations for matching text. Nutrient Android SDK offers developers an API for programmatic full-text search, as well as a customizable UI for searching and highlighting relevant matches.

Nutrient SDKs are trusted by world’s most popular applications, including Autodesk, Disney, UBS, Dropbox, IBM, and Lufthansa. Nutrient’s powerful solutions enable seamless integration of PDF editing features into your applications, delivering reliability and efficiency to world-class enterprises.

Key capabilities

• Full-text search — Programmatically or by using the UI

• Indexed search — Search inside multiple PDFs at once

• Annotation search — Find specific PDF annotations

• Customizable UI — Adjust the search form to match your look and feel

• Extendable — Add annotation, extraction, redaction, and more

Guides for search

Search for text in a PDF How to search for text within a single PDF document

Search for annotations in a PDF How to search for text contained in annotations

Index multiple documents How to index multiple PDF documents for use in indexed full-text search

Indexed search matching options How to configure matching options for indexed full-text search