pdfgrep

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