Re: cmdline tool to search through pdf files?
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On 09/20/07 22:09, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 06/21/07 13:44, Tod Detre wrote:
>>>
>>> Most pdf's are mainly text. You should be able to use standard tools
>>> like grep and perl.
>>
>>
>> But PDF is compressed.
>
> ?
>
> You could try converting to post script and searching, I suppose.
>
> But I never heard about PDF being compressed.
Yup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#PostScript
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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