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I have this rss page with a lot of links to .pdf files.
The thing is to search for certain strings inside those. pdfs, without the need to open them one by one, and do the search for each one, because they do are a lot!
Does anyone knows a way we may have to search inside those pdfs?
Any ideas? Any browser extension ? Any RSS feed that allows this ?
MEM
Posted 2013-05-30T12:23:21.083
Reputation: 907
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You can always use Google.
filetype:pdf site:http://xyz.com/abc <your keyword(s) here> would do the job for you. You just need to find the common domain in the PDFs. By that I mean that if there are two PDFs on the page that are located at http://xyz.com/abc/1.pdf and http://xyz.com/abc/2.pdf then you can use site:http://xyz.com/abc. Only site:http://xyz.com would work too, but would bring you all the PDFs that it finds on the website.
So you want to be specific.
Parth Kohli
Posted 2013-05-30T12:23:21.083
Reputation: 138
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download the files first, then search
find /path -name '*.pdf' -ls -exec pdftotext {} - \; | grep "your query"
jet
Posted 2013-05-30T12:23:21.083
Reputation: 2 675
Thanks. I didn't intend to download them each time I do a search. But that command is indeed nice. :) – MEM – 2013-05-31T17:08:12.517
This will of course work only if search engines have been allowed to index those files. – Karan – 2013-05-30T23:25:11.957
@Karan I am pretty sure that is the case here. – Parth Kohli – 2013-05-31T02:02:19.133
Might be the case here perhaps (I didn't bother to verify), but my comment was of course an addendum to your answer since people other than the OP will be reading it later and in their case things might be different and so they can't always use Google. – Karan – 2013-05-31T02:06:36.277
Doesn't return any results. Here's the site in question with the exact command used:
filetype:pdf site:http://dre.pt/sug/notificacoes/rss.asp?id=212 Guarda BragaGuarda and Braga being the keywords. – MEM – 2013-05-31T16:53:39.737OK, then either it is not allowed to index those files, or these keywords are not there in the files. Try
filetype:pdf site:http://dre.pt Guarda Braga– Parth Kohli – 2013-05-31T17:01:37.840Sir, you are a google master. ;) Cheers. I added OR and other operators to better refine the search. 5 starts. Not sure however, if the index is accurate in time, is it ? Or it will only list keywords WHEN the .pdfs are scanned by google bots? – MEM – 2013-05-31T17:05:49.223
lol, there's no mastery. – Parth Kohli – 2013-05-31T17:07:08.130