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Date:      Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:21:49 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        djuatdelta@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PDF inventory software
Message-ID:  <200906090321.n593LnOa088398@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470906082011i75fe455cg97d237b2bb9b47a8@mail.gmail.com> (message from Daniel Underwood on Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:11:50 -0400)
References:  <b6c05a470906081417x370edb66yb86fac71b462eab8@mail.gmail.com> <20090609023702.EF4D2BED8@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <b6c05a470906082011i75fe455cg97d237b2bb9b47a8@mail.gmail.com>

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> Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I
> simply use some command like grep to search for text within the
> collection?  If so, how would I do this?  Can grep read text from
> within PDFs?

pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think

Olivier



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