pdfgrep
a commandline utility to search text in PDF files
TLDR
Find lines that match pattern in a PDF
$ pdfgrep [pattern] [file.pdf]
Include file name and page number for each matched line
$ pdfgrep --with-filename --page-number [pattern] [file.pdf]
Do a case-insensitive search for lines that begin with "foo" and return the first 3 matches
$ pdfgrep --max-count [3] --ignore-case ['^foo'] [file.pdf]
Find pattern in files with a .pdf extension in the current directory recursively
$ pdfgrep --recursive [pattern]
Find pattern on files that match a specific glob in the current directory recursively
$ pdfgrep --recursive --include ['*book.pdf'] [pattern]
