pdfgrep — Search text in PDF files. More information: <https://pdfgrep.org/doc.html>.

Find lines that match pattern in a PDF

pdfgrep {{pattern}} {{file.pdf}}

Include file name and page number for each matched line

pdfgrep {{[-H|--with-filename]}} {{[-n|--page-number]}} {{pattern}} {{file.pdf}}

Do a case-insensitive search for lines that begin with `file_name` and return the first 3 matches

pdfgrep {{[-m|--max-count]}} {{3}} {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} '{{^file_name}}' {{file.pdf}}

Find pattern in files with a `.pdf` extension in the current directory recursively

pdfgrep {{[-r|--recursive]}} {{pattern}}

Find pattern on files that match a specific glob in the current directory recursively

pdfgrep {{[-r|--recursive]}} --include '{{*book.pdf}}' {{pattern}}