Paperlight

Fast, private search across every PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint file on your PC

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Paperlight is a free desktop app that indexes PDFs, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files so you can find any of them by name, folder, or the text inside — fast, local, and read-only, with nothing uploaded to the cloud. It's for people whose built-in file search can't reliably find documents by their content.

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