Today, we're thrilled to officially unveil Find AZ. If you've ever spent countless hours re-downloading documents you know you saved somewhere or searching blindly across thousands of PDFs without finding the exact paragraph you need—we built Find AZ for you.
Why We Built Find AZ
Information is scattered. Knowledge workers and researchers deal with an ever-expanding universe of local files: Office documents, LibreOffice spreadsheets, code snippets, scanned images, and even video recordings. Traditional search tools only look at the file names. We realized that true search needs to dive into the content itself, whether that's text embedded in a scanned receipt or spoken words in a video.
Find AZ finds any file by what's inside it — not just its name. And it does it all locally on your machine.
Deep Indexing for Every Format
Find AZ goes beyond standard search engines by parsing the actual contents of your everyday documents. Our local indexing engine supports:
- Everyday Text: Markdown, PDF, HTML, SQL, CSV, and code files.
- Office suites: Microsoft Office (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) and LibreOffice (ODT, ODS).
- Images (OCR): Extracts searchable text from PNG, JPG, and even images embedded inside PDFs.
- Media & Video: Indexes video chapters and uses powerful AI to generate audio/video transcriptions so you can search for spoken words.
Installation Levels that Scale with You
Whether you're running on a lightweight laptop or a powerhouse desktop workstation, Find AZ lets you choose the level of indexing right for your workflow:
- Minimum: Fast, basic indexing of all everyday documents and standard text.
- Deep: Adds Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to read text from images and embedded PDFs. Perfect for researchers with scanned papers and receipts.
- Extreme: Unlocks AI audio and video transcriptions. Find exact moments in your media library just by searching for spoken phrases (available on Windows and macOS-ARM).
A True Local-First Experience
In a world dominated by cloud uploads, your privacy shouldn't be a trade-off for convenience. Find AZ is proudly local-first. Your files, your search history, and the indexes we build never leave your device.
Precision Search with Synonyms and Tags
We've built robust tools inside the Find AZ GUI (Desktop 4) to give you total control over your search. You can effortlessly mix Include Words and Exclude Words to narrow down matches. Furthermore, Find AZ lets you define your own Synonyms. By mapping related terms (like "invoice" and "receipt"), one search can discover files regardless of which specific word is used in the text.
Found the perfect group of files? Assign them a Tag so you can instantly bring them back together in the future.
Ready to Start Finding?
Find AZ is available now for Windows and macOS (Apple Silicon). The desktop application is easy to install, beautifully themed (with light and dark modes), and ready to redefine how you organize your digital life.