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Windows Grep for pdf?
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Why Tea
2013-08-19 09:50:31 UTC
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Is there a good grep for pdf files on Windows platform?

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Mike Easter
2013-08-19 12:06:03 UTC
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Post by Why Tea
Is there a good grep for pdf files on Windows platform?
A quick search tells me that pdfgrep has been MXE compiled for Win.

http://soft.rubypdf.com/software/pdfgrep-windows-version
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Yrrah
2013-08-19 12:16:37 UTC
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Post by Why Tea
Is there a good grep for pdf files on Windows platform?
Not exactly what I would call a 'grep', but AgentRansack can search
for character strings in PDF files.
OS: Windows 2000/XP/SP2/2003/Vista/2008/7.
Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Home:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack

Agent Ransack uses 'pdftotext', an open source command-line utility
for converting PDF files to plain text files (included in the AR
download).
( http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html )

See also:
<http://superuser.com/questions/97286/free-way-to-perform-a-text-search-in-pdf-and-excel-files>

Yrrah
p-0.0-h the cat
2013-08-19 12:30:06 UTC
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Post by Why Tea
Is there a good grep for pdf files on Windows platform?
There are several iFilters for pdf availlable. Therefore they can be
indexed by Windows search.

http://www.pdflib.com/products/tet-pdf-ifilter/?gclid=CMLOzOrAibkCFU_MtAodBSoA3g

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025

For instance.
FromTheRafters
2013-08-19 13:23:04 UTC
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:50:31 -0700 (PDT)
Post by Why Tea
Is there a good grep for pdf files on Windows platform?
What are you hoping to accomplish?
Flasherly
2013-08-21 11:47:52 UTC
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Post by Why Tea
Is there a good grep for pdf files on Windows platform?
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Doubt it. Seems anti-communalist, PDF, if not wholly insular then at
least lending itself to a higher degree of integrity, at that level,
for resisting effects most freeware PDF manipulators convey by
intent;- I'm speaking of larger commercial entities, say, a Samsung
PDF accompanying a hardware product - such as some, I've encountered,
which are tough nuts to crack and strongly resistant to
dissemination;- in principle, ostensibly, a one-interpretation
conjecture, no less adverse to employing GREP over their ranks.

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