Yeah the difference being that Windows may have a filter built in to extract the plaintext for searching. Also tried VB but ran into the same problem.Īnyhow will post a solution whenever or should I say if I find a solution to this annoying challenge. Phrase in a file, but apparently not in scripting. In Windows it's quite easy to do this manually by searching for word or
Where to look, I will be happy to hear them.Īmazing how such a 'small' task can be so difficult. I'm currently testing Xpdf and the pdftotext and also looking at the greb function. I must also admit that i was a bit hasty as the findstr doesn't find text in. It works perfectly with a little tweaking here and there. It'll display to screen the files it's looking at but will only log the ones it tries to copy (with some basic error handling). REM inspect all files in the source directory structureįor /r "%source%\%dt%" %%a in ("*.pdf") do ( REM create the date string for today's files REM logs to the directory that the script sits in Set "target=\\NEW_SERVERNAME3\LONG PATH\Chicago" Set "source=\\SERVERNAME1\LONG PATH\Atlanta" I have tested and verified this little function:
LINUX SEARCHING FILES FOR TEXT WITH A SCRIPT PDF
I mean text within the OCR scanned PDF file. Getting such a tool may prove more taxing than the script itself. To do the latter, you'll need to find a command line tool that will extract the text from the PDF for you. The next day the folder containing the PDF files would be:Ĭopy the found PDF files to this location:ĭo you mean search for text in the document name (should be straight forward) or within the text of the document?
This is furthermore complicated by the fact that the folder containing the PDFįiles is random by date in the following format: YEAR-MONTH-DAYįolder containing the PDF files reside here:Ĭopy the PDF files containing the text 'Coffe cup' to this location: Preferable with a log file specifying where the found PDF files were located + time. Search for a specific text in many PDF files in one location and copy found PDF files I am trying to perform the following task:
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