However, you can combine this operator with other Google search operators to refine your search for PDFs even further. The search operator you will be using to find PDFs on Google is, of course, filetype. Okay, let’s jump into searching for PDFs on Google. 👉 Don’t miss my list of 50+ Google search operators and become a super-efficient Google user in no time. The good news is that we have Google search commands that can help find what we are looking for more easily. Of course, Google is working hard on delivering better and more satisfying results, but it still sometimes gets it wrong. Source: Chromium Gerrit and search operators (also known as search parameters) are special commands you type into Google to narrow down your search to get more relevant and satisfying results. Let me know in the comments section below. I would love to hear your thoughts on this new Chrome feature. I am 100% sure that I will use this feature regularly when it is out. 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. Google Chrome is adding region search aka Google Lens to the PDF viewer.

Google search for pdf files