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[nycphp-talk] SEARCHING PDF DOCUMENTS WITH UNIX

DeWitt, Michael mjdewitt at alexcommgrp.com
Thu Mar 4 20:42:55 EST 2004


I am using xpdf to get text out of pdfs.  You can get it here
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/index.html.  

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	SALMAN MAZHAR [SMTP:salmaz8347 at hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 04, 2004 8:05 PM
> To:	talk at lists.nyphp.org
> Subject:	[nycphp-talk] SEARCHING PDF DOCUMENTS WITH UNIX
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was trying to search for strings in a pdf file that is on the unix
> system. 
> I looked for other tools to
> search in pdf files but so far I have found none. Is there a way in Unix 
> itself like the grep command or something else that can help me search for
> 
> strings in pdf files?
> 
> If anyone knows about it, then please kindly let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Salman.
> 
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