It is not limited to academic PDFs, although I mostly use the script to find those. When typing academic keywords (author names, scientific jargon, etc), the pe

It is not limited to academic PDFs, although I mostly use the script to find those. When typing academic keywords (author names, scientific jargon, etc), the personal PDF that also lie in ~/Downloads/ are filtered out. I recently used the command with some combination of airport/city/airline and the only match was the boarding pass I was looking for. It could probably be used for receipts from hotel or whatnot, as soon as pdftotext can retrieve the text. It should find tax returns and related PDFs by querying "IRS + SSN". A current issue that I would like to fix is the preview window that does not always highlight the query in full if a single match was found before the full query was typed. It is linked to how fzf handles previewing. I do not have plans for any big enhancements. edit: I created a public repo to replace the gist. Feel free to post your thoughts or suggestions in the issues!