Hello Bruno! Bruno Buys wrote: > I'd like to be able to search keywords in pdf files using cmd line > tools. My intention is to write shell scripts to automate heavy duty > keyword searching. Anyone has experience with that?
As Tod wrote *most* PDFs are mainly text, i.e. not all. But for those which are, pdftotext doc.pdf - | grep -i keyword is a simple method to search for keywords in a PDF-file. pdftotext is part of the xpdf-utils package. Regards, Tobias
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