Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF
On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:47:52 +0200
Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@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
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