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pdfgrep is a tool for grepping pdf files. It is useful for students or anyone who needs to quickly and efficiently refer to pdf files.

Homepage: https://pdfgrep.org
License: GPL-2
Repo: https://gitlab.com/pdfgrep/pdfgrep *
Tarball: https://pdfgrep.org/download/pdfgrep-2.1.2.tar.gz

  • The last commit to master was in August 2020 which makes me paranoid that this will be rejected for DOA. However the program solves a common task for which there is (afaik) no alternative in the repos. pdfgrep is clearly rather well-known, for example see this popular question on Stack Exchange (also note this answer which explains why poppler-utils is not a full substitute).

I would like to maintain this if accepted.

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Hi,

If pdfgrep can't make the cut and be accepted for repo inclusion, then you can use this one - https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all (ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.)

Cheers,
PY

Oh this is a cool project! Thanks for letting me know about it.

Given the lack of recent activity I'm a bit hesitant to accept this. Feel free to create a separate package request for ripgrep-all as that looks much more actively maintained.