[ale] HOW2 search for text in a "PDF" file ?

[Courtney Thomas]

I can open the pdf files using xpdf, but what I need to do, [sorry for
the opaque description], is to search a DIR of pdf files, printing names
of those containing specified text.

I can mount the CD of course but the 'controlling' files are *.exe...so
all I can do is search the pdf files, hopefully, since the menus, etc
are MS formats.

Appreciatively,

Courtney


On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:18, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> pdftotext can pull out text from a pdf file. Then you can search that.
> 
> You _should_ be able to load the cd into a linux box and read the pdf
> files from it using xpdf, acrobat, etc. Just because it's a winders cd
> it doesn't mean anyhing. The cd format is still iso9660. The PIA part is
> if the files are embedded in some bizarre .exe format. In that case it
> may be an auto-unzip file with the pdf's inside. unzip can likely handle
> it OK.
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:37 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > I have a CD with lots of *.pdf files and since I can't boot it on my
> > linux box [a Winders CD & Wine won't work either], I hope there's a way
> > to find among many, many PDF files... particular files that contain the
> > information I seek.
> > 
> > Suggestions ?
> > 
> > Thanks once again,
> > 
> > Courtney
> > 
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