[GH-ISSUE #8318] [FR] Allow to search embedded PDF files #3726

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opened 2026-03-23 21:32:43 +00:00 by mirror · 1 comment

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Originally created by @Vivian-appflowy on GitHub (Oct 30, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/issues/8318

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Supporting search to include text content within embedded PDF files.

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Hi, is there a plan to add support for searching embedded PDF files? Context: I add a lot of supporting documentation (manuals, receipts, etc.) that I would like to be able to query on alongside of the information that I put into the app flowy document.

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Help users quickly find reference materials

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Originally created by @Vivian-appflowy on GitHub (Oct 30, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/issues/8318 ### Description Supporting search to include text content within embedded PDF files. From [discord](https://discord.com/channels/903549834160635914/903553722804748309/1433152227551219896) >Hi, is there a plan to add support for searching embedded PDF files? Context: I add a lot of supporting documentation (manuals, receipts, etc.) that I would like to be able to query on alongside of the information that I put into the app flowy document. ### Impact Help users quickly find reference materials ### Additional Context _No response_

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@WolfBearGames commented on GitHub (Nov 5, 2025):

That would be a great new feature. Ideally OCR should be used to extract text vom image-based PDF documents.
OCR could and should also be used on all images wo make text inside images searchable.

Tesseract is availbale for flutter, so implementing this should be possible. Extracting real text from PDFs should also be possible without too much hassle.

@WolfBearGames commented on GitHub (Nov 5, 2025): That would be a great new feature. Ideally OCR should be used to extract text vom image-based PDF documents. OCR could and should also be used on all images wo make text inside images searchable. Tesseract is availbale for flutter, so implementing this should be possible. Extracting real text from PDFs should also be possible without too much hassle.