Search pdf files for a word. Find a string in multiple pdf files on Linux.

Posted by rolf on Thursday, 2 April 2015

pdfgrep

On Linux if you want to find a word in multiple pdf files open the terminal (Ctrl+T), cd to the path where the pdf files are located

cd /path/to/pdf/files

and use the pdfgrep command to find a certain string in all pdf files

pdfgrep -in 'searchThisString' *.pdf

i=case insensitive, n=show line number in pdf.

Or if you just want to look through one pdf file

pdfgrep -in 'searchThisString' NameOfFile.pdf

 

If pdfgrep is not installed you can install it on Ubuntu, using following command

sudo apt-get install pdfgrep

 

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