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?
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Joel Roth
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