Among the mass of useful, even indispensable sites, there is a web page where it is possible to search for PDF files on the entire Internet. PDF Drive is a free search engine that allows you to search, preview and download millions of PDF files to your computer or smartphone. And all this for free.
The robots of this PDF search engine scan the world wide web all day long to add PDF files to the service's database. But they don't just index files. In the event that PDF files would be removed from the web, they are also immediately removed from PDF Drive search results… thus avoiding any frustration (what could be more annoying than clicking on the link of a file that no longer exists)!
How the PDF Drive website works
The way the site works is very simple. PDF Drive is a search engine very similar to the search engines you are used to using like Google. But instead of searching for anything and everything on the Internet, it focuses on PDFs and ebooks. At the time of writing, the indexed e-book database is over 75 million PDF files, including many interesting books and great classics.
The site is only available in English, Spanish, Russian and Turkish but searches can be filtered by language (several dozen including French). To do this, launch your search via the search bar at the top of the site and on the results page you will be able to access several filters. First of all, you will be able to request to display only the results that exactly match your search, specify a range for the number of pages, a publication date period and therefore, choose the language of the files in the results.
For each search result, you will get a number of information next to a representation of the book cover, starting with the title of the document, the number of pages, its year of publication, its weight and its language. When you select a document, you can preview it online and you can download it for free. The books can be retrieved in PDF, but also in EPUB or MOBI format.
The importance of copyright
PDF Drive claims to respect the intellectual property rights third parties and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, PDF Drive strives to respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement involving its service.
From PDF Drive, you can access other websites via external links. However, PDF Drive has no control over the content and nature of these sites. These links do not imply a recommendation of all the content found on these sites.
Site owners and content may change without notice, which may result in situations where copyright laws are no longer respected.
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