Ask
Upload a PDF, DOCX, TXT, XLSX, XLS, or CSV file, then ask in your own words: “How can I improve visibility?”
AI DOCUMENT SEARCH WITH SOURCE VERIFICATION
Ask your document.
Find the answer. Verify the source.
Search documents by meaning, generate focused answers, and jump directly
to the supporting section in the original document.
DocuLocate is Ctrl+F for meaning. Go beyond matching words. Search for what you mean.
Interactive example: search a document with AI and jump to the source
DocuLocate PREPARED DEMOEXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Master-Service-Agreement.pdf48 pages · 612 KB
Searching…Sorted by relevance ↓
Ask → find → answer → verify in the original documentFictional files · illustrative answer · no uploads or live AI calls
START WITH THE DOCUMENT IN FRONT OF YOU.
PDF PDFW DOCXT TXTX XLSX / XLS, CSV
Search PDF, Word, text, Excel, and CSV files with AI: a contract, a policy, or a workbook. One file at a time.
ASK → FIND → ANSWER → VERIFY
From question to source in one click.
No need to know the document’s exact words, or what “semantic search” means.
Find
DocuLocate finds the strongest supporting passages by combining keyword and meaning-based search, so wording does not have to match.
Answer
Get a focused answer. It is taken word for word from your document by default; add your own AI provider to have AI interpret and rerank the evidence and write it.
Verify
Click the answer or a source to jump to the passage in the original document, highlighted so you can check it. Hide the highlight to read in peace.
THE DIFFERENCE
Don’t just get an AI answer.
See where the answer came from.
Don’t trust an answer blindly. Jump to the evidence.
The answer, linked to its source
Every answer and result is connected to the passage it came from, whether that is a PDF page, a stretch of a Word file, or a spreadsheet row.
Highlighted in the original
Select an answer and the supporting text is highlighted in the original document. Select it again to hide the highlight.
Verify it yourself
Read the surrounding text before you rely on anything. DocuLocate makes answers easier to check against your document; it does not promise they are always right.
How source verification worksTWO WAYS TO USE YOUR DOCUMENT
Search to find the evidence.
Ask to analyze the whole document.
Two different jobs, one text box. Choose Search | Ask beside it.
Find answers, not just keywords.
Ctrl+F only finds the words you already know. Search finds passages by meaning and intent, then connects the answer to its source. Ask “How can I improve visibility?” and it can find the relevant passage even when those exact words never appear. Choose Hybrid (the default), Semantic, or Lexical for exact text.
Search documents by meaningAsk your document anything.
Ask sends your question and the whole document to the AI provider you choose, for summaries, explanations, key points, and broader analysis. It needs your own AI provider and key, and its answers are not linked to a highlighted passage, so use Search to check them.
Ask questions about a documentDOCULOCATE — CTRL+F FOR MEANING
Ctrl+F matches words.
DocuLocate matches meaning.
Ctrl+F searches for matching characters and words. DocuLocate searches for concepts, intent, and meaning. When you do need the exact text, Lexical search works like Ctrl+F too.
A better alternative to Ctrl+FGO DEEPER
Guides to searching documents with AI.
Semantic search, PDF search, source verification, and when to use Ask.
Semantic document search
How searching documents by meaning works, when keyword search is still the better tool, and how Hybrid, Semantic, and Lexical modes fit together.
Read the guideA Ctrl+F alternative
“Can I cancel early?” finds nothing when the document says “discontinue prior to expiration.” See what to do instead.
Read the guideDocument search with source verification
Get an answer, then jump to the highlighted passage in the original document to check it. Ask, find, answer, verify.
Read the guideAI PDF search
Search inside a PDF with AI, in your own words, and land on the matching page. Works with PDFs that have extractable text.
Read the guideA chat with PDF alternative
Find the answer and verify the source, instead of trusting a chat reply. See when each approach fits.
Read the guideAsk your document anything
With your own AI provider, ask for a summary, an explanation, or key points from the entire document. Search stays the way to check the source.
Read the guideFOR THE DOCUMENT YOU NEED TO READ
Find the detail that matters.
Bring a question to a long document. Leave with an answer and the source to verify it.
Legal
Search contracts with AI to locate clauses, obligations, termination conditions, and liability language in a contract.
“what happens if I end the agreement early?”Search contracts
Business
Find policies, procedures, requirements, and important details in a long business document.
“when does a purchase need approval?”Technical
Search a specification, architecture document, or manual for the concept you need.
“how does the system recover from a failure?”Research
Find concepts and relevant passages without knowing the author’s exact terminology.
“what limitations affected the findings?”CLEAR ABOUT YOUR DOCUMENT
Your document.
Your search.
Your file is processed on the application server and kept in memory, private to your browser or account. No account is needed to search. Recent-file history can also save a copy in this browser. Answers come from your document, with no AI; queries and passages go to an AI provider only if you choose to add your own.
Read the privacy detailsA FEW THINGS WORTH KNOWING
Questions, answered.
AI document search, source verification, Search vs. Ask, formats, PDFs, and what to do when there is no good match.
Read the FAQRELATED TOOL
Need to compare documents?
DocuLocate helps you find and understand information inside documents. When you need to compare two documents instead, try DiffFind.
DiffFind combines lexical and semantic analysis to identify meaningful differences between PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, and text.
Compare documents with DiffFindASK. FIND. VERIFY.
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