Pdfgrep – a commandline utility to search text in PDF files

• ripgrep-all

  43 6,164 8.0 Rust

  rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.

• pdf-keywords-extractor

  5 25 0.0 RobotFramework

Tangential:

Some time ago I built an automation [1] that automatically identifies whether the given PDFs contain the specified keywords, outputting the result as a CSV file.

Similar to PDFGrep, probably much slower, but potentially more convenient for people preferring GUIs

[1] https://github.com/bendersej/pdf-keywords-extractor

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• pdfgrep

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Looking at the list of dependencies, it seems like they use poppler-cpp to render the PDFs.

https://gitlab.com/pdfgrep/pdfgrep#dependencies

• docquery

  4 1,637 0.0 Python

  An easy way to extract information from documents

  

DocQuery (https://github.com/impira/docquery), a project I work on, allows you to do something similar, but search over semantic information in the PDF files (using a large language model that is pre-trained to query business documents).

For example:

  $ docquery scan "What is the due date?" /my/invoices/

• pdfgrep

  5 43 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  PDFGrep is a GNU/Emacs module providing grep comparable facilities but for PDF files

For Emacs users there is also https://github.com/jeremy-compostella/pdfgrep which lets you browse the results and open the original docs highlighting the selected match.

• looqs

  5 20 5.2 C++

  FTS desktop file search with previews

  

I am working on looqs, it can do that (and also will render the page immediatly): https://github.com/quitesimpleorg/looqs

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