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> Yeah, my computer is fast enough that I can just do "find . -name '*.pdf' -exec pdftotext {} \; | grep -i someSearchTerm" and come back later. You may be int
by phiresky 6y ago
> Yeah, my computer is fast enough that I can just do "find . -name '*.pdf' -exec pdftotext {} \; | grep -i someSearchTerm" and come back later.
You may be interested in my ripgrep-all [1] tool, it should allow you to search those tens of thousands of PDFs in under a second (with hot cache)
[1] https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2019/rga--ripgrep-for-zip-targz-docx-odt-epub-jpg/ https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2019/rga--ripgrep-for-zip-ta...
- tomcooks 6y agoReally great tool, if there is a way to promote it to the main pacman archives, instead of having to use AUR, let me know where I can vote
- fit2rule 6y agoThanks for that - yeah, silversearch-ag also does a pretty good job.. Its really not a big deal to search so many docs these days, either ..