Thursday, 14 December 2017

Using pdfgrep to search PDF files on Linux

Using pdfgrep to search PDF files on Linux

This is a really handy tool to let you search one or a directory full of PDF files.

This is Debian oriented, but a great tool for all Linux versions.


For OpenSUSE users, just add the Publishing repo then add the package.
eg. do the following from a root shell

zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/Publishing.repo

zypper in pdfgrep

You might also want to add pdftk with
zypper in pdftk

https://www.maketecheasier.com/search-pdf-files-pdfgrep/

3 comments:

  1. I'm on a mac, but I might use this if I didn't have tools for searching PDFs built in. Very cool.

    BTW, gtop is awesome.

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  2. John Lewis Yeah, but you can use this with scripts so there's that.

    RE: gtop, glad to hear a positive review.

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