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If you need to annotate PDFs, there is nothing better than Skim. In other words, it is unlikely Skim's search capabilities are going to get any better.

The developer said Skim was using the search capabilities provided by Apple's PDFKit so if you want improved search, then you should talk to Apple. I searched Skim's "Issues" page on GitHub and found that someone had brought this to the developer's attention a few years ago. It immediately found the exact page I needed-where the words "capitalization" and "infinitive" appeared in different parts of the page, about three sentences apart. I opened the document in Preview and searched for "capital* AND infinitive". produce zero search results And that exhausts the Skim search capabilities. The exact phrases "capital infinitive", "infinitive capital", "infinitive capitalization", "capitalize infinitive", etc. But there is no way to find where it appears anywhere on the same page with some form of "capital". Any search for two or more words will be an exact phrase search. However, as soon as you hit the space bar, you are locked into a search for the exact word you typed. If you type "capital", it will show pages that contain capital, capitals, capitalize, and capitalization.

In Skim, you can find where any form of "capital" appears. And the word "infinitive" also needed to appear anywhere on those pages. I needed pages that used the words capital, capitals, capitalize or capitalization. The other day I needed to find the title capitalization rules for infinitives. If you need to find a page where two words appear separately, then you are out of luck Search doesn't support wildcards or booleans. Skim is a great app, but it has one significant limitation.