How to search contents of multiple pdf files?

Question

How could I search the contents of PDF files in a directory/subdirectory? I am looking for some command line tools. It seems that grep can\'t search PDF files.<

Answer 1

If You want to see file names with pdftotext use following command:

find . -name '*.pdf' -exec echo {} \; -exec pdftotext {} - \; | grep "pattern\|pdf"