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

[Jim Philips]

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 01:37 pm, 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 ?

Kat is a desktop search engine for KDE. It will index pdf's that are text 
based. End of story. Get it here:

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22135