Content Search

Content Search makes NameQuick understand what is inside your files. Instead of matching only filenames, folders, tags, or comments, NameQuick builds a private local index of readable file content. You can then search for a customer name, an invoice total, an order number, a SKU, a sentence, or a phrase, even when the filename says nothing useful.

Use Content Search when a file exists somewhere on your Mac but the name gives you nothing to go on. To rename those messy files based on their content, see Smart Rename.

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How It Works#

When you search, matching files appear directly in the normal file list, with a clear "inside file" indicator and a snippet showing where the match was found. The snippet tells you why each file matched, so you can land on the right document without opening every result.

What gets indexed#

• PDFs with a text layer are searched through their embedded text.
• Scanned PDFs and images can be processed with on-device OCR, so text inside receipts, screenshots, product labels, invoices, forms, and photographed documents becomes searchable.
• Text and supported Office files are indexed from their readable content.

NameQuick supports 30+ file formats. See Supported File Formats for the full list.

Examples#

Each of these works even when the filename is generic, wrong, or was never renamed.

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On-device OCR#

Scanned documents and images contain no selectable text by default. NameQuick can run OCR (optical character recognition) on your Mac to read that text and add it to the index. OCR runs locally, so the contents of your files never leave your device.

OCR is optional. With it turned off, NameQuick still indexes PDFs that already have a text layer along with other readable text files, but it will not read scanned images. Turning OCR on makes receipts, screenshots, and photographed documents searchable too.

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Privacy and Control#

Everything stays local. The index is stored on your Mac, and you stay in control of privacy, performance, and storage.

From Settings you can:

• Enable or disable the content index.
• Rebuild the index, for example after adding a large number of files.
• Clear the index to remove all stored content.
• Turn OCR on or off independently of the text index.

Indexing runs in the background and does not block normal search. You can keep working while NameQuick catches up.

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Why It Helps#

• Find PDFs, screenshots, scans, and images by the text inside them.
• Search invoices, receipts, contracts, manuals, statements, notes, and screenshots in one place.
• See content snippets so you know why a file matched.
• Works in the background without blocking normal search.
• Stays fully local, with controls to enable, rebuild, clear, or disable the index.

Content Search lets NameQuick find and organize files from what they actually contain, not only from filenames that may be generic, wrong, or never updated. Combined with Smart Rename and Rules, it closes the loop: name files from their content, file them in the right place, and find them later by the words inside them.