pdfgrep is a tool to search text in PDF files. It works similarly to grep.
- Grep compatible: pdfgrep tries to be compatible with GNU grep,
where it makes sense. Many of your favorite grep options are
supported (such as
-r,-i,-nor-c). - Search many PDFs at once, even recursively in directories
- Regular expressions: Posix or PCRE
- Colored output
- Support for password protected PDFs
For a complete documentation, please consult the manpage.
$ pdfgrep --max-count 1 --context 1 --with-filename --page-number pattern rabin-karp.pdf
rabin-karp.pdf-1-randomized
rabin-karp.pdf:1:pattern-matching
rabin-karp.pdf-1-algorithms
- poppler-cpp (poppler >= 0.14) (http://poppler.freedesktop.org/)
- libgcrypt (https://www.gnu.org/software/libgcrypt/)
- optionally libpcre (http://www.pcre.org/)
To build pdfgrep, use the standard procedure:
./configure
make
sudo make install
If you're using the git version, you will also have to run
./autogen.sh in advance.
Depending on your OS, you need to have -dev or -devel packages
installed for all dependencies.
The ./configure script can take lots of options to customize the
build process, the most important of which are:
--with-unac: Build with experimental libunac support and add the--unacflag to pdfgrep that strips all accents from characters, making it possible to find the character 'ä' by searching 'a'.--with-{zsh,bash}-completion: Configure installation directory for shell completion files.--without-libpcre: Disable support for perl compatible regular expressions.--disable-doc: Disable manpage generation.
To uninstall, run sudo make uninstall.
See configure --help for more info or read the (very extensive)
INSTALL file in the source.
Tarballs for releases are available at https://pdfgrep.org/download.html
The development version is available as a git repository at https://gitlab.com/pdfgrep/pdfgrep
General questions, suggestions, bug reports, patches or anything else can be sent to the mailinglist.
You can also use the issue tracker for bug reports or create a merge request on GitLab, if you prefer that over mailinglists.