Find anything, in milliseconds
OCR'd PDFs, parsed spreadsheets, image metadata, vBoxxCloud indexes it all and surfaces hits across content, name and path in real-time.
- Full-text search across PDF, Office, plain text and images (OCR)
- Filter by type, owner, date, tag and folder
- Search inside shared team spaces and personal folders
- Encrypted index, search even on E2E-encrypted folders
Search across every file, message, comment and signed document, with results scoped to your permissions.
Finding the right file shouldn't take more time than writing it
Knowledge workers spend an average of 20% of their week searching for information. When files live in OneDrive, emails in Outlook, chats in Slack and contracts in DocuSign, full-text search is impossible. vBoxxCloud's unified search indexes every file (including PDF and image OCR), every chat message and every signed document, and respects your permissions, so users never see what they shouldn't. Good search also changes the way teams structure information. When you can find anything in seconds, you stop building deep folder hierarchies as a workaround for bad discovery. The result is a flatter, simpler workspace that new colleagues can navigate from day one.
How unified search works
Press ⌘K from anywhere. Search file names, full document content, OCR'd images, chat messages and signing requests.
Narrow by file type, owner, date range, folder or shared status. Save filters as quick views for recurring searches.
Click a result to jump directly to the file, the message or the highlighted paragraph in a PDF.
Search in practice
Find every clause matching a specific phrase across thousands of contracts, including scanned PDFs.
Locate a customer's signed agreement and the related chat thread in one query.
Search by author, date or folder to find that proposal from last quarter without remembering the exact title.
Search capabilities
- File names, full text and metadata
- OCR for scanned PDFs and images (NL, EN, DE, FR, DA)
- Chat messages, comments and signing requests
- Permission-aware results, no leakage of titles
- Typo tolerance and language-aware stemming
- Search activity log accessible to admins
Why unified search matters
Files, chat, comments and signed documents in a single search bar, instead of jumping between four tools.
Results are filtered server-side against the user's rights, so confidential content is never hinted at.
Sub-second results on workspaces with millions of files, with sharded indexes for very large tenants.
Frequently asked questions
Does search work inside PDFs?+
Yes. Born-digital PDFs are indexed at upload. Scanned PDFs and images are processed by OCR (Dutch, English, German, French, Danish) and become fully searchable within minutes.
Can users see results they don't have access to?+
No. Every query is filtered server-side against the user's permissions. Unauthorised file titles, paths and snippets are never returned.
How fast is search?+
Most queries return in under 200 ms on workspaces with up to one million files. Larger workspaces use sharded indexes to maintain sub-second performance.
Are searches logged?+
Search activity is logged for security audit and abuse detection, accessible only to workspace admins. Query content is retained for 30 days.
Can I search inside email attachments stored in vBoxxCloud?+
Yes. Any file in your workspace is indexed, including attachments saved from email.
Is search included on all plans?+
Yes. Full-text search, OCR and unified chat/file search are included on every paid plan.