This program is a GUI for the command line tool grep and pdfgrep. Pdfgrep search text in multiple PDF files and grep can serach text in multiple text files. You can use regular expressions for the search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression). This GUI and the command line tools work without indexing.
The following options are used: -i (ignore case) and -F (fixed strings), -n (Print page number or output lines) and -H (Print the file name for each match) from the command line tool. The -r option will be done by the program itself.
Performance:
This GUI works well when searching in several hundreds of documents (depends on the speed of your computer and the length of the documents).
Config Dir:
[homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui
Available Languages:
- English
- German
You can add your own language by editing the file [homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui/language.set
Features
- Search text in multiple pdf and text files
- The results can be opened by an external document viewer.
- Results can be shown as a treeview or in a table
- Results can be exported as a textfile or csv file
- Optionally use of regular expressions for the search