[ale] HOW2 search for text in a "PDF" file ?

[Geoffrey]

Courtney Thomas wrote:
> I can open the pdf files using xpdf, but what I need to do, [sorry for
> the opaque description], is to search a DIR of pdf files, printing names
> of those containing specified text.
> 
> I can mount the CD of course but the 'controlling' files are *.exe...so
> all I can do is search the pdf files, hopefully, since the menus, etc
> are MS formats.

What about something like:

for fn in pdf/*.pdf; do
	pdftotxt $fn - |grep "$textyourelookingfor" >/dev/null &&
		echo $fn contains $textyourelookingfor
done

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey