11-04-2011
I'm not aware of a tool that is capable of searching PDF's in UNIX but in Linux there is a tool named pdftotext which converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text then you can search for texts using any UNIX command e.g grep.
You can search for the counterpart for MS doc files.
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sagasu
sagasu(1) sagasu(1)
NAME
sagasu - GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files
SYNOPSIS
sagasu [string [dir]]
DESCRIPTION
sagasu is a GNOME tool to find strings in a set of files. The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched.
Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the appropriate line. The
search can recurse into subdirectories and can optionally ignore CVS directories.
Two optional command-line arguments can be given: the first is the initial search string and the second is the directory whose files will
be searched. If only one argument is given, it is taken as the search string. No search is actually started, but the appropriate fields
are initialized. Any subsequent arguments are ignored.
More documentation is available through the application's Help menu.
OPTIONS
--help display a help page and exit
--version
display version information and exit
LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no
warranty.
AUTHOR
Pierre Sarrazin
See the Sagasu Home Page:
http://sarrazip.com/dev/sagasu.html
BUGS
The files to be searches are still assumed to be in Latin-1, not in UTF-8. The same goes for the command-line arguments and the terminal
to which Sagasu is connected, if applicable.
HISTORY
Sagasu is a Japanese word that means "to search."
June 19th, 2010 sagasu(1)