Reference corpus
Long-form works and the manuals nobody puts on a web page
Product manuals and book-length texts read page by page — including the ones published only as documents.
What’s in it right now
Read from publishers and manufacturers directly, including material published as PDFs that ordinary search never opens.
What you can do with it
Answer the question the FAQ did not
The manual itself, not a forum thread guessing at it.
Land on the section
The specific answer usually exists in exactly one place in a long document.
Read documents, not just pages
Manuals published as files are opened and read, scans included.
Keep the edition attached
Instructions move between revisions more often than people expect.
Where it’s used
Search
Search reaches into these documents directly, which is why a manual answer arrives without a download.
Read, filed and kept current.
This collection is one shelf of the askFinz index — material read from the source and filed as the kind of thing it is, rather than as undifferentiated web pages. The counts above are read from the running system.