On 6/21/07, Tobias Nissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Bruno! > > Bruno Buys wrote: > > I'd like to be able to search keywords in pdf files using cmd line > > tools. My intention is to write shell scripts to automate heavy duty > > keyword searching. Anyone has experience with that? > > As Tod wrote *most* PDFs are mainly text, i.e. not all. But for those > which are, > > pdftotext doc.pdf - | grep -i keyword > > is a simple method to search for keywords in a PDF-file. pdftotext is > part of the xpdf-utils package. > > Regards, > Tobias
This should work fairly well. I have these lines in my .vimrc: autocmd BufReadPre *.pdf set ro autocmd BufReadPost *.pdf silent %!pdftotext -nopgbrk "%" - |fmt -csw7 and I can read most PDFs I have with vim. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
