RE: Tahiti's down...
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:00:41 -0600
Message-ID: <CB340D772D072D47A5DE07533432A7E50E88D19A_at_exch1.soc.int>
Correct. You will need to either use strings or pdftotext and pipe it to a grep. The grep will work for some search terms but not very many.
WGB
-----Original Message-----
From: Yong Huang [mailto:yong321_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:55 AM
To: Blanchard, William
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Tahiti's down...
> grep -R '<search term>' *.pdf
That won't work. One reason I don't like PDF is that you can't do grep 'clear text' on it. You have to use a tool such as pdftotext then grep its output.
As to desktop search program, none is perfect. Microsoft Desktop Search insists on indexing Outlook mails, even if I turn it off. Google Desktop
has no rule order for inclusion/exclusion so to only index c:\mydocs, you have to exclude all other folders at C:. Copernic only allows you to use for free at home. Both Google and Copernic have trouble indexing some files in subfolder with space in filenames.
Yong Huang
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