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Re:Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office do... by hobofan on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:22AM (#25277883)
Big fan of rga! I use it almost every day for the academic part of my life, when I want to know the location of some specific keywords in my lecture slides, books or papers I've been reading. Even for single ebooks, it is often more useful than the search in Acrobat Reader.
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Re:Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office do... by durnygbur on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:13PM (#25278594)
> search in Acrobat Reader

The search in PDF viewers is an anti-feature in terms of UI and performance. Their advantage is that they allow to scroll to and highlight the found phrase back in the document.

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Re:Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office do... by solstice on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:01PM (#25280833)
The search in Tracker Software's PDF X-Change Viewer/Editor is really great. Effective and easy to use
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Re:Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office do... by mssdvd on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:38PM (#25278908)
The search in most application is an anti-feature.
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