Acrobat reader and find

I have a medicine book in pdf format so its encrypted in that
format.The find program under that program is very scarn insufficient
for me.
Is there a way where can i use the find option program by terminal
where can i interact on it?
franzi [ Mi, 21 November 2007 17:10 ] [ ID #1875474 ]

Re: Acrobat reader and find

try pdftotext:

pdftotext myfile.pdf

creates a plain textfile named myfile.txt which you can view and
serach subsequently.

Or directly

pdftotext myfile.pdf - | grep <pattern>

This may or may not work for you. Reading "encrypted" I hear "password-
protected PDF file". In this case, you are out of luck.
Othmar Wigger [ Di, 27 November 2007 09:30 ] [ ID #1879529 ]
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