This Powershell app searches for keywords within PDF files and throws an output file and a error log file.
To change the search keywords, go to the ps1 file, look for the $keywords variable and edit it accordingly.
Library: itextsharp hosted on https://github.com/itext
Latest itextsharp release here: https://github.com/itext/itextsharp/releases/latest
The itextsharp dll is already compiled and can be found in the dll folder, so there is no need to worry about compiling it again.
Powershell 2.0 or above
Download the repo
git clone https://github.com/garyzava/PDF-File-Search.git
Place the pdfs files into the directory /pdfhere/. Open the Command Prompt window and within the directory run:
Powershell .\SearchPDF.ps1