find-in-pdf 0.1.0

A simple tool to search for strings in PDF files within a directory.

PDFSearcher

PDFSearcher is a simple Python tool for searching a specific string within PDF files located in a specified directory and its subdirectories. It outputs the file paths where the string is found.

Features

• Recursively searches for a given string in all PDF files within a folder and its subfolders.
• Prints out the paths of the PDF files where the search string is found.
• Easy to install and use.

Installation

You can install the package via pip after uploading it to PyPI:

pip install pdfsearcher

Or, you can install it locally by cloning the repository and using:

pip install .

Usage

To use pdfsearcher in your Python code, you can simply import it and call the search_pdfs_in_folder function.

from pdfsearcher import search_pdfs_in_folder

# Example usage
folder_path = "/path/to/folder"
search_string = "your search string"
search_pdfs_in_folder(folder_path, search_string)

You can also use it as a command-line tool (if you've set up the entry points in setup.py):

pdfsearcher /path/to/folder "search string"