Under Linux, I can use grep to search a bunch of
files for a character string. Is there an equivalent
command for searching pdf files?
might do some typesetting "magic" (eg ligitures, etc.) that might make things
Text in PDFs is sometimes compressed. So one can either use
programs like "Agent Ransack" to search for text in PDFs or
tools like "pdftotext" to first create a text file for every
PDF file and then grep those text files.
Under Linux, I can use grep to search a bunch of
files for a character string. Is there an equivalent
command for searching pdf files?
I installed pdfgrep in my Kubuntu system, but it is
not happy. Although the man file is there, even help
doesn't work:
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