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Looking for something that can search multiple PDFs for content (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by E_hV@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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So I'm looking for a service I can run that can search the internal contents of multiple PDFs (multiple 1000+ page reference manuals) for a a phrase/word, similar to Adobe acrobats advance search function.

Bonus points of I can control the scope of which documents it searches through through some sort of interface.

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

Made by the same phiresky that's been contributing incredible improvements to lemmy

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For Linux command line, there is pdfgrep. It can be found e.g. in the official Debian repository.

[–] thekrautboy@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Look at the subreddit sidebar and find this: awesome-selfhosted, category document management, and more.

[–] StrykerSigma@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

You should checkout a free program called Seekfast