Please let me know if there is a unix command or any shell script which can do a search for a text in ms-word files, pdf'd and in excel files. Please let me know if there is a solution for this challenge.
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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Hi.
Often such tasks are multi-step. In this case a first step might be to convert MS Word, PDF files to text, then use a member of the grep family to do the actual search.
Here are a few programs I noted after running:
Code:
man -k word
and
Code:
man -k pdf
your system may have different utilities.
Code:
antiword (1) - show the text and images of MS Word documents
catdoc (1) - reads MS-Word file and puts its content as plain text ...
wordview (1) - displays text contained in MS-Word file in X window
wvWare (1) - convert msword documents
pdftotext (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (vers...
pdftk - useful tool for manipulating PDF documents
pstotext - Extract text from PostScript and PDF files
A Google search for linux convert pdf to text produces 47 million hits.
Does anybody have idea of Converting secured pdf files to pdf using acroread ?
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This file is not password protected. (4 Replies)
the titele was wrong ... the true one is: Is it possible to search words inside .pdf or .doc files?
is it possible if i changed the word into binary combination:eek:?
and this way is super too hyper huge of greatest codes i ever seen:D to read only 1 word so is there any other ways:confused:?
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Hi,
I want to find for a particular word which is existing in different files and folders under the parent directory. What command can I use to retrieve all the file names which is having the word. (1 Reply)
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Thanks for the reply in adv,:) (3 Replies)
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Hi all,
Lets say I have 3 files a.txt and b.txt and c.txt.
a.txt has the following text
====================
apple is good for health
b.txt has the following text
====================
apple is pomme in french
c.txt has the following text
====================
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hi
can i know how to get the file name of any files containing for example "abc" from a number of files in a directory?
i tried "ls -ltrc | grep abc" but no resulted generated.
thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
11-05-2011
