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Subject: Re: PDF inventory software
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> Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I
> simply use some command like grep to search for text within the
> collection?  If so, how would I do this?  Can grep read text from
> within PDFs?

pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think

Olivier