PDF search command line

In this article we will see how to create a PDF search using the command line.

Here we will take the following PDF and see if we can make extract its content searchable. PDF link here 

Here are the steps-

1. Open a terminal in linux.
2. Use the wget function to get download the file and save it to dc-best-practices-google.pdf.

   wget "https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//corporate/datacenter/dc-best-practices-google.pdf"
   

    

3. Use pdftotext function to convert the file to text.

   pdftotext dc-best-practices-google.pdf 
   

    

4. open the file dc-best-practices-google.txt with any editor

   vim dc-best-practices-google.txt

    

5. Use the grep command to search for Green data center

   grep -F -C2 "Green Data Center" dc-best-practices-google.txt

    

6. This will show the following output which confirms that the PDF data has been made searchable.
7. To create your PDF search engine, use this link 

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