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bludger
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 Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:38 am Post subject: PDF search utility |
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| Does anyone out there know of a utility to search through a number of pdf files for a text string similarly to grep. Acroread and xpdf can search pdf files one at a time, but I am looking for something to search through a number of files, preferably from the command line. |
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superurban
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
I'm not sure, but maybe htdig will help you out. atleast it's capable of searching through pdfs.
good luck! |
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bludger
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:35 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, I couldn't get htdig to work, but I did find another solution.
I simply ran
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on each of the pdf files and then used grep etc. to search.
BTW. I couldn't work out how to send the output of pdftotext to stdout. The man page says
"If text-file is -', the text is sent to stdout" (at least on my screen). I am not sure which character is meant here.
I also found a utility pdfsearch at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsearch/. It is not in portage, though and I have not tried it. |
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funeagle
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | pdftotext -layout somefile.pdf - |
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