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Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?



On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:22:04PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Arthur Marsh
> <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>wrote:
> 
> > Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE that
> > can both search for text across line breaks and allows copying of text from
> > the PDF document to the clip-board?
> >
> 
> Install pdfgrep and xclip. You can then do something like:
> 
>   pdfgrep 'foo.*bar' baz.pdf | xclip
> 
> Works for me.

xclip! how is it I didn't know about you for so long?


-- 
Joel Roth


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