pdfgrep

Search text in PDF files. More information: <https://pdfgrep.org>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/pdfgrep.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install pdfgrep
Ubuntu
apt-get install pdfgrep
Alpine
apk add pdfgrep
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S pdfgrep
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install pdfgrep
Fedora
dnf install pdfgrep
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pdfgrep
OS X
brew install pdfgrep
Raspbian
apt-get install pdfgrep
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/pdfgrep
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/pdfgrep pdfgrep powered by Commando

Search text in PDF files. More information: <https://pdfgrep.org>.

  • Find lines that match pattern in a PDF:
    pdfgrep pattern file.pdf
  • Include file name and page number for each matched line:
    pdfgrep --with-filename --page-number pattern file.pdf
  • Do a case-insensitive search for lines that begin with "foo" and return the first 3 matches:
    pdfgrep --max-count 3 --ignore-case '^foo' file.pdf
  • Find pattern in files with a `.pdf` extension in the current directory recursively:
    pdfgrep --recursive pattern
  • Find pattern on files that match a specific glob in the current directory recursively:
    pdfgrep --recursive --include '*book.pdf' pattern

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