tldr/pages/common/pdfgrep.md

pdfgrep

Search text in PDF files. More information: https://pdfgrep.org/doc.html.

• Find lines that match pattern in a PDF:

pdfgrep {{pattern}} {{file.pdf}}

• Include file name and page number for each matched line:

pdfgrep {{[-H|--with-filename]}} {{[-n|--page-number]}} {{pattern}} {{file.pdf}}

• Do a case-insensitive search for lines that begin with file_name and return the first 3 matches:

pdfgrep {{[-m|--max-count]}} {{3}} {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} '{{^file_name}}' {{file.pdf}}

• Find pattern in files with a .pdf extension in the current directory recursively:

pdfgrep {{[-r|--recursive]}} {{pattern}}

• Find pattern on files that match a specific glob in the current directory recursively:

pdfgrep {{[-r|--recursive]}} --include '{{*book.pdf}}' {{pattern}}