On Monday 23 December 2002 10:11, Mike Manchester wrote:
> During my months of job searching. I've been printing any jobs I apply
> to, to a .ps file and converting them to PDF. Just cause everything is
> saved in one file.
>
> But after months of job searching I've accumulated a number of PDF
> files. What I would like to be able to search all the pdfs for a text
> string. Something like a grep for PDF files. Can anyone offer any
> suggestions? I've looked at somethings on freshmeat.net such as namazu
> but I couldn't get it to work :( though it seemed like the idea
> solution.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated. I don't need anything to fancy just a
> simple grep with regx type of searches would be just fine. Maybe
> converting a PDF to text and piping that to grep?
Look for "pstotext". It requires ghostscript. With it, you may dump PS and PDF
files to straight ASCII text which you can then grep for whatever strings you
wish.
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