However, it is good to know the limitations of this feature before getting excited about it. PDF files tend to be text-heavy most of the time. *Image Search* (where you right-click on an image to search) is not covered by this bug and may not ever make sense to enable on PDFs (see discussion on the bug linked above).” “Note that we are enabling *Region Search* only, which is the feature where you click and drag to select a region of the page to search. But, there is a catchĪccording to the Chromium bug for this feature, image search is not supported yet. An experimental flag for this feature showed up in the Chromium Gerrit this morning.Įnable Region Search on PDF viewer: Enable the Lens Region Search feature on the PDF viewer. Google is working on Google Lens support for its PDF viewer. I never thought that Google will bring this to PDF files as well. I use it quite often to fact-check social media content among other things. Google Lens is one of my favorite features on Chrome. You will soon be able to right-click and choose ‘Search Images with Google Lens’ on PDF files. To get this, you need to install Gmelius and use Chrome as your Web Browser.Google Chrome is adding region search aka Google Lens to the PDF viewer. P.S.: you may have noticed that my Gmail shows a small icon for PDF file attachments. Voilà! As you can clearly see, all emails with PDF attachments that I’ve received are sorted form the most recent to the oldest one. When done, hit the Return key or click on the blue lens on the right to perform your search. In addition you can limit the scope of your search to a specific label by combining with the label operator like this label:work filename:pdf.Īs you’ll see, Google will prompt you other suggestions that will be might be useful for other file type. Type filename:PDF or filename:pdf in the search box above your inbox. How to use the filename operator in Gmail Sure you’re a Gmail user and you can count on a terrific internal search, but there’s a better, simpler and smarter way to search for your PDF file: use the filename operator.Īs you might know Gmail has operators to perform more accurate searches, and filename:xxxxxx is all you need right now. Let’s say you need to sort all at once a whole bunch of PDF files that are stored in your inbox as email attachments.

Google search for pdf files