Looking for a Widget and/or PlugIn to search keywords or phrases in all searchable PDFs that are stored in a certain folder or web location

Hi there @AtlInq,

It would depend on how exactly you need to use that tool, for example, if you want to just be able to run it via a script, you could use Python with PyPDF2.

The script itself would look something like this:

# import packages
import PyPDF2
import re

# open the pdf file
object = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader("test.pdf")

# get number of pages
NumPages = object.getNumPages()

# define keyterms
String = "Social"

# extract text and do the search
for i in range(0, NumPages):
    PageObj = object.getPage(i)
    print("this is page " + str(i)) 
    Text = PageObj.extractText() 
    # print(Text)
    ResSearch = re.search(String, Text)
    print(ResSearch)

Source.

Regards, Bobby