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pdfgrep

Search PDF files for text matching regular expressions

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Search PDFs for strings matching a regular expression

Commands

pdfgrep

Examples

Search for a simple string in a PDF file$ pdfgrep 'search_term' document.pdf
Search with regular expression and show line numbers$ pdfgrep -n 'pattern[0-9]+' document.pdf
Recursively search all PDFs in a directory$ pdfgrep -r 'keyword' /path/to/pdf/directory/