Ambar VS itext-dotnet

AnyTXT.net for PC. https://github.com/RD17/ambar and https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html for Linux

One product could be "Ambar: Document Search Engine"

https://github.com/RD17/ambar

> Ambar is an open-source document search engine with automated crawling, OCR, tagging and instant full-text search

> *Easily deploy Ambar with a single docker-compose file; *Perform Google-like search through your documents and contents of your images; *Tag your documents; *Use a simple REST API to integrate Ambar into your workflow

There was an open-source program called Ambar that was pretty chill. It let you full-text search documents, perform OCR on these documents, and tag. There surely exist apps that do each, but the nice thing about Ambar was it incorporated all of the above into one nice GUI.

I don't need any other features (other than batch uploading). The best ones I've found so far are Ambar, I, librarian, and Lodestone with their multiple 'snippet' search functionality, however for various reasons they won't work with my use case.[1]

Ambar - Document Search Engine · An open-source document search engine with automated crawling, OCR, tagging and instant full-text search

Amber Main Page and GitHub

There is also stuff like Mayan EDMS which is much more enterprise-oriented or Ambar which targeted more for individual users.

VBA, no, this is 2022. We edit our PDFs with PowerShell. itext7

iTextSharp has been around for at least 6 years, based on an open source Java codebase called iText, and still has somewhat of a Java flavor. Developers who first learned Java may find this library familiar.

iTextSharp

I haven't done this myself, but for the "searching the content of the PDF files" part of things I'd probably start with looking at this dotNET project and see how easily it lends itself to scripted search in PowerShell.