Pdfgrep windows version is compiled with the help of MXE, based on the last version Pdfgrep source code and poppler.

Overview

Pdfgrep is a tool to search text in PDF files. It works similar to grep.

Features

• search for regular expressions.
• support for some important grep options, including:
  • filename output.
  • page number output.
  • optional case insensitivity.
  • count occurrences.
  • recursive search.
• and the most important feature: color output!

For a complete documentation, please consult the manpage

Download

Download compiled windows version here(based on git,1.5M, compressed with UPX 3.08).

Source Code:

The latest version is 1.3.0. You can download it here.

The development happens on gitorious. You can get the git version there.

Dependencies

• poppler (http://poppler.freedesktop.org/)

Known Issues

for some PDF documents, will get following error, it is a bug of poppler

poppler/error (482): Missing ‘endstream’ or incorrect stream length
poppler/error: Couldn’t find trailer dictionarypoppler/error: Couldn’t read xref table
pdfgrep: Could not open xxx.pdf

P.S.

MXE(M cross environment) is a Makefile that compiles a cross compiler and cross compiles many free libraries such as SDL and Qt. Thus, it provides a nice cross compiling environment for various target platforms

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