AI document search that tells you where the answer is
Search+ is an AI document search tool for the PDFs you collect for a project. Instead of typing keywords into a box, you ask a question in plain language, and Search+ looks through every document in the workspace, or only the one you choose, and answers with inline citations to the passages it used. Upload your PDFs, wait for them to finish processing, then ask where a topic, figure or commitment appears and open the excerpt to check it.
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What a search looks like in Search+
Each search is a question you type into the workspace chat. These are the kinds of questions people ask when they are hunting for something inside a stack of PDFs, and what comes back.
The answer names each PDF that discusses the topic, says what it says in a sentence or two, and attaches a citation per point. Each citation opens the supporting excerpt, with a page or section reference when the PDF provides one.
Search+ points you to the documents that contain the figure and quotes the surrounding passage through the citation, so you read the number in its own context rather than trusting a paraphrase.
The answer pulls the relevant passages from the minutes and papers in the pack, says which meeting or paper each comes from, and cites them so you can read the discussion in full.
Narrow the question to the handbook alone and the answer stays inside that one file, with citations that carry its section headings when the PDF has them.
What is AI document search?
AI document search is a way of finding information inside documents by describing what you need rather than guessing the exact words the author used. The system reads the documents ahead of time, breaks them into passages, and when you ask a question it retrieves the passages whose meaning matches the question, then writes an answer from them. Search+ applies this to the PDFs in one workspace at a time: it retrieves relevant passages by meaning, answers in prose, and links every claim in the answer to the excerpt it came from, so the search result is both the answer and the evidence.
How to search your documents with Search+
- Create a workspace for the collection
Give the project a workspace so every document you want searched sits in one place. You can rename or archive it later.
- Drop in your PDFs
Drag and drop up to 10 PDFs per batch. Each file shows its status while it is processed in the background, and it becomes searchable once it is indexed.
- Ask where something is
Type the question the way you would ask a colleague who has read everything: where is this discussed, which document says that, what does the policy say about this. Keep the scope on the whole workspace or pin it to one file.
- Open the citations
Every point in the answer carries a citation. Open it to read the excerpt, and use the page or section reference, when the PDF has one, to find the passage in your own copy.
What Search+ gives you when you search documents
You describe what you are looking for in plain language. There are no operators, filters or exact phrases to get right.
Relevant passages are found by what they mean, not only by the exact words, so a question about cancelling finds a clause that talks about termination.
A single question can draw on several PDFs at once, so you see every place a topic comes up instead of opening files one by one.
Narrow the scope to a single document when the question is about that file and nothing else.
Each statement links to the source document and the supporting excerpt, and Search+ does not invent page or section locations a document does not contain.
Conversations are saved with the workspace, so last week's search and its citations are still there when you return. Find old conversations by name.
What Search+ document search does not do
There is no box that lists every exact occurrence of a word. If you need every literal match, use your PDF reader's find function alongside Search+.
It only searches the documents in your workspace. It will not pull in pages from the internet to fill gaps.
AI answers can be incomplete or inaccurate. Treat the citations as the result and check them before you rely on an important finding.
Search+ compared with searching PDFs by hand
Most people search a document collection with their PDF reader's find function, one file at a time. Here is how that compares.
| Task | Find in a PDF reader | Search+ |
|---|---|---|
| Looking across many files | Open each file and repeat the search | One question covers every PDF in the workspace |
| Different wording | Misses passages that use other words | Finds passages by meaning |
| Every literal occurrence | Lists each exact match | Not offered; answers with the relevant passages instead |
| Seeing the result in context | Jumps to the match on the page | Cites the excerpt behind each statement |
| Coming back later | Search again from scratch | Saved conversations in a saved workspace |
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