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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Searching PDF's from the command line will then be possible, and then the question is how to make a system-wide PDF text search capability available (via scripts?, run pdftotext in-line or off-line?, use an existing system-wide search system? ...).
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Maybe convert to text with a background process, or an overnight batch?
I don't know much about writing graphical toolkit software, but a very simple interface using find/grep shouldn't be that hard to create. In fact, it seems likely that someone has done it in some open source tool.