Magpie SearchVersion 3.0.0
November 2026
Magpie — Screenshot Finder is now Magpie Search. It still finds your pictures by the text in them, and now it reads every document, PDF, spreadsheet, slide and note in your folders as well.
New
- Reads Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument and RTF files: body text, tables, cells, slide text, speaker notes and comments.
- Reads PDFs, with text recognition for scanned pages.
- Reads text and Markdown notes and logs, plus any extensions you add (.csv, .json, .py …).
- Find by meaning: optional on-device AI (English, 23 MB, or multilingual, about 118 MB) finds files that are about what you typed.
- A query language:
type:,ext:,name:,content:,in:,modified:,after:,size:,re:,sort:,is:pinned, and plain-English dates. - A new search window: preview pane with the full extracted text, every match highlighted and find-in-text; advanced search; filter chips; scope box and optional collections; pins; recent searches; list or grid view.
- Duplicate finder with SHA-256 comparison that only moves copies to the Recycle Bin.
- A first-run setup with an animated reading screen, and automatic tuning to your PC's processor and memory.
- Text recognition with PaddleOCR and Tesseract: 17 language packs covering 50+ languages, including mixed English + Persian/Arabic and dark-mode screenshots.
- Light in the background: Efficiency mode when no window is open, models unloaded when idle, about 20 MB of memory in the tray.
Upgrading
Installing version 3 upgrades version 2 in place and keeps your existing index, folders and languages.