I'm pretty sure that HTdig will do what you are asking. It might be a bit
overkill but it is a start.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/htdig.html
Syd
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?
>
> Thanks
> Mike M.
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