# Find Documents by Search Term

Documents can be retrieved by Search Term, meaning any plain text that was extracted from each PDF when uploaded to the database, including metadata, text annotations, and any notes added to the document after being uploaded. By default, when the PDF being uploaded contains image-only pages, the text will be extracted from the image-only pages using OCR.

Select the database platform specific topic for examples on how to find documents by Search Term:

Find Documents by Search Term Examples for SQLite
Find Documents by Search Term Examples for Oracle
Find Documents by Search Term Examples for SQL Server
Find Documents by Search Term Examples for MySQL