"As a university professor, I am constantly conducting research in the field of telecommunications. Writing scientific articles on research findings is my daily job. Part of this process is a literature review, which is a very difficult task due to the multitude of scientific articles published today. This task requires tools that make the search for information and data faster and more efficient.
Almost all scientific articles are available in PDF format. SeekFast can search for text phrases and strings in such files, doing it better and faster than Windows and Adobe Acrobat.
My favorite feature in SeekFast is "Export results to CSV file." I use this feature to obtain a list of full paths to PDF files that contain the information I was looking for. Then, I use a simple batch script to copy all the files in the list to one dedicated folder. I repeat this process with other text phrases or strings and end up with a set of folders containing sorted literature. Finally, I use the files from these folders in any reference manager (I have access to Mendeley) to generate a list of references devoted to a particular topic. Before I found SeekFast, sorting articles for the reference manager was very time-consuming."
Associate Professor
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Wroclaw, Poland
June 3, 2025
"I found SeekFast to be an excellent tool for efficiently searching keywords and extracting information from hundreds of scientific publications. It provides rapid access to relevant data, enabling quick identification of key insights, trends, and references within large document sets. Its intuitive interface and fast search capabilities make it particularly useful for literature reviews, technical analyses, and data mining across PDFs. By streamlining the search process, SeekFast significantly reduces the time spent on manual document review and enhances the overall efficiency of research and data analysis."
Chair of Materials Physics
University of Leoben
Leoben, Austria
March 14, 2025
"SeekFast worked perfectly to allow me to scan and find content in 57000 patient visit files. The support I received was quick, courteous, and super helpful. I highly recommend SeekFast."
Rheumatologist
Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital
1050 Nw 15th St, Boca Raton, FL, USA
February 3, 2025
"SeekFast is an excellent, simple-to-use application with a large array of file types that it can search. The ability to upload a list of keywords was also a time saver, as this allowed us to look through thousands of files within only an hour or two, compared to the months it would have taken us to do manually or with other file search software we’ve tried.
I also want to brag about the professionalism and care for the users that SeekFast demonstrates. We had some minor issues that SeekFast was very quick in helping us resolve, one of the best customer support experiences that I’ve dealt with.
This is truly a search software built for those who need a quick and reliable solution to file searching. Highly recommend to anyone, you will search no further."
IT Business Systems Analyst
JTEKT North America Corporation
Sylvania, GA, USA
January 12, 2023
"First of all, a big thank you for updating this important feature: the ability of your software to recognize the various standard email formats. It's incredible how quickly it indexes files of various formats and how quickly it recognizes a keyword on a set of large files.
Then, thank you again for listening to users, your speed, and your professional skills in the field of IT.
As part of my professional and also personal activities, I have to manage a very large quantity of documents in multiple formats. When you need to search for a document with a keyword in this mass of documents, your software does the job with incredible precision. The reliability of your software is almost perfect. In other words, this software, in the rapid search of documents, represents for me an essential tool."
Senior Health Executive
Sorbonne University
Paris, France
June 03, 2022
"SeekFast is the best doc searcher I have ever used in terms of speed and stability. Thanks for your great software to improve my productivity!"
Software Engineer
Beijing, China
June 27, 2021
"I've been looking for a program to do this literally for years! Great program!
I have lots of different versions of notes and pieces of a writing project and this helps me find the relevant ones quickly. Well done!"
Scholar and writer
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
May 7, 2021
"I'm a writer who works in many short forms (short stories, song lyrics, poetry, essays) as well as long. I need to keep all drafts of all of my work electronically, so there are thousands of files in dozens of folders on my computer. Seekfast enables me to quickly locate specific as well as multiple versions of any of my works. It's an invaluable tool."
World-famous playwright, librettist and songwriter
Brooklyn, New York, USA
April 27, 2021
"As a college professor who writes a lot of books, I download all of my relevant research materials (Word Documents and PDFs) into folders, and frequently need to search among them for particular text phrases at each stage of each book's development. Given that I was unhappy with the hit-or-miss text search function built into Windows 10, and that the Adobe Acrobat cross-document text search function is both awkward to use and very slow, I scoured the Internet for a utility which could accomplish the task I needed in a better manner. Surprisingly, while there are tons of decent search engines to find files and folders, there are very few that do cross-file non-Internet-based text searches.
Then I found SeekFast, and it exceeded all of my expectations! It installs on computers without a hitch, takes up a tiny amount of disk space, and handles both Word documents and PDFs (as well as several other document types). It is incredibly fast--amazingly so--and provides output that is really clear and just perfect to use. Not only does it show you where in each file the text you are searching for is located, with the context of surrounding words, but it also allows you to get directly to each file (Word document or PDF) listed if you need more of the context. This utility does everything I could want and more!
After having SeekFast for just a few weeks, I have become totally dependent on it, and frankly do not know what I would do without it. There is nothing else like it on the market!
If you are doing focused research on any topic, you will not find any substitute, and if you download the relevant files and use SeekFast you completely avoid the spam and the junk you would get if you download nothing and just did a standard Google text search. I highly recommend that you purchase it - and the developer is really nice too!"
Professor of International Affairs and Chair of International Affairs
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, Oregon, USA
June 3, 2020
"I have over 12,000 short quotes, stories, and illustrations stored in multiple Microsoft Word files that have been randomly typed in over the years, with no attempt to organize them (other than to drop them in a single folder) because I had a program that would search them and find what I needed. With the evolution of Windows, that searching task has become more cumbersome to the point of being impossible.
I find it hard to believe that in 20 years of hunting for a search engine that does what I want that SeekFast would be the ticket. I have downloaded at least a dozen programs over the years, but none did the job I needed and ALL of them did that tiresome indexing that was of little help for my needs. Now you have solved it for me!
Count me as a HUGE fan and endorser of the software. I think I could sell it to anyone who wondered what it would do."
Human Resources Associate
Ruston, Louisiana, USA