Search multiple PDFs in Linux

George Georgovassilis linux 20 May 2021

find /path -name '*.pdf' -exec sh -c 'pdftotext "{}" - | grep --with-filename --label="{}" --color "your pattern"' \;

Published 20 May 2021

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