Ask HN: How to search text across books in Mac

Posted by akira_hn on Monday July 05, 2021 @03:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have a lot of books in a different format like pdf, mobi, and epub. I want to search across all of them or at least across all the books in the same format. Does anyone pulled this off somehow?

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Re:Ask HN: How to search text across books in Mac by marvel_boy on Monday July 05, 2021 @04:19AM (#27735682)

Seems the answer is no: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/44562/is-it-possib...

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Re:Ask HN: How to search text across books in Mac by quijoteuniv on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:03AM (#27735894)

In Linux I convert to pdf in the command line and then use PDFgrep. Is awesome simple. Same as grew super fast.

On Mac it should be possible to get it trough homebrew...

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