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Linux has a pdfgrep command which works pretty well (unless the PDF has images of text).
by statquontrarian 6y ago
Linux has a pdfgrep command which works pretty well (unless the PDF has images of text).
- ur-whale 6y agoUnless the PDF has every letter placed by independent PostScript like commands or - worse - text has been imported from an SVG file. pdfgrep is at best probabilistic and I stand by my comment..
- flal_ 6y agoAgreed. I work on a solution for extracting data from random documents ( invoices, payslips, you name it ) for natives pdf in the wild ( not scans) we gave up : and just rasterize to send to an OCR software... It's also probabilistic, but way more reliable.
- addandsubtract 6y agoSpotlight can also search within PDFs