# Search for "Files" and within them (pdf text)

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/search-for-files-and-within-them-pdf-text/5331>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Tags:** search, files\
**Created:** [October 25, 2023, 9:13am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/search-for-files-and-within-them-pdf-text/5331 "2023-10-25T09:13:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/search-for-files-and-within-them-pdf-text/5331/16 "2022-01-28T23:16:31Z")

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My main incentive in treating files as entities is to allow you to reference them in text and connect them to multiple entities. This is how fibery fundamentally works so I feel it is not stretch to apply it to files. Having files (at least file names) searchable is just a nice bonus 😀

> [@Oshyan](#):
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> maybe just the option to buy “storage nodes” or something as the team file repository grows

That would be a good option. I also think maybe [allowing an integration with major cloud storage platforms](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-attachments-in-the-document/1470/8) so that files are actually stored elsewhere could also be a good short-term solution. Given that currently you cannot backup your files out of fibery or really do anything interesting like sync or edit, I think going in this direction in the short term might give users what they need without a lot of investment in the storage stack. Fibery can always add that service to the platform in the future.

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