find-in-pdf 0.2.1

A simple tool to search for strings or list 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 find-in-pdf

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, list_products

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

You can also use it as a command-line tool:

pdfutil search /path/to/folder "search_string"
pdfutil list /path/to/folder

Local dev usage

python search.py search /path/to/folder "your_search_string"

python search.py list /path/to/folder