On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:47:52 +0200 Merciadri Luca <luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
> Hi, > > I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for > other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for > a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I > do not know that my keyword is simply at the last page of the document, > it takes 500s ~8 minutes and a half. How can I speed it up? Why is it so > sluggish? Do not tell me that it is limited by R/W access on the HDD... Don't know how useful it is, but I recently noticed that pdfgrep has been added to Sid: $ apt-cache show pdfgrep Package: pdfgrep ... Description: search in pdf files for strings matching a regular expression Pdfgrep is a tool to search text in PDF files. It works similar to `grep'. . Features: - search for regular expressions. - support for some important grep options, including: + filename output. + page number output. + optional case insensitivity. + count occurrences. - and the most important feature: color output! Homepage: http://pdfgrep.sourceforge.net/> Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100530165147.b0fd53b5.cele...@gmail.com