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…since. There's also RGA (ripgrep-all) which searches binary files like PDFs, ebooks, doc files: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by nikisweeting · 2026-03-24 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

…on text based content so PDF and webpages are easily supported. for PDFs I thought about using https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all or pdfgrep https://pdfgrep.org/ For images, what do you want to grep for? for exif data ->…

comment by SansGuidon · 2025-05-02 · in Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival

…of a given directory. I have been using a shell function to do this, and it works wonderfully well: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/wiki/fzf-Integration The built-in rga-fzf command appeared in v0.10 and ostensibly obviates the…

comment by justinmayer · 2024-09-18 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.

…proposed changes would allow users to process XLS and XLSX files like any other Zip archive. [1]: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/pull/247

comment by lafrenierejm · 2024-09-18 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.

See https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/issues/221 for an example of doing this via a custom adapter and `exiftool`.

comment by lafrenierejm · 2024-09-18 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.

…I have an open PR [1] to allow users to process XLS and XLSX files like any other Zip archive. [1]: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/pull/247

comment by lafrenierejm · 2024-09-18 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.

…were about five weeks apart: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep/commit/e37c986dd842adc3b2c2... https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/commit/16b4277d361ce...

comment by mbrubeck · 2024-09-17 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.

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story by bukacdan · 2024-09-17 · 57 comments

Try https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all before going down the rabbit hole of AI and advanced indexers. Quick to set up and undo if that's not what you want, but I'm pretty sure you'll be surprised how far can this get you

comment by pawelduda · 2024-05-31 · in Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

…etc.? Or for something more comprehensive (to also search PDF, docx, etc.) there is ripgrep-all: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by semi-extrinsic · 2024-05-31 · in Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

…grep is a form of AI -- or, at least, an advanced intelligence that's wiser than it looks. ;) https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by pixelmonkey · 2024-05-31 · in Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

…AI, but searching the PDF content, I use Recoll ( https://www.recoll.org/ ) or ripgrep-all ( https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all )

comment by elrostelperien · 2024-05-30 · in Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

…portage, and it seems there is another version working also with other documents like PDFs and doc. https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by entropie · 2023-11-30 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

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story by tosh · 2023-11-30 · 0 comments

…just on text files but on all types of files including pdfs, zip files. More details here [1] [1] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/wiki/fzf-Integration

comment by wanderingmind · 2023-11-30 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

If you want even faster search across different formats, you can try ripgrep-all ( https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all ). It can search across epub, docx, pdf, zip, mp4 etc. If you are handy with the tool, you can write custom adaptor…

comment by silentguy · 2023-11-19 · in Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0

…a gamechanger for many people without a heavy compute machine or who dont want to use OpenAI. [1] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/wiki/fzf-Integration

comment by wanderingmind · 2023-07-31 · in Show HN: Khoj – Chat offline with your second brain using Llama 2

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story by rendx · 2023-07-30 · 0 comments

…a function on integrating it with fzf[2] to interactively search documents from terminal. [1] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all [2] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/blob/master/doc/rga-...

comment by wanderingmind · 2023-03-21 · in So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

…about the workflow [1] https://github.com/wustho/epy [2] https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/ [3] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by youngNed · 2023-02-24 · in Burgr – Books in Your Terminal

…actually see images in the readme.. I swear it was there, maybe it's a buried extra flag.. [0] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by RupertEisenhart · 2022-12-09 · in Internet Archive Scholar

Yes, I haven’t tried it myself yet. https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by ravendug · 2022-12-02 · in Recoll – Full-text search for your desktop

See also https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all (`ripgrep`, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.)

comment by asicsp · 2022-09-25 · in Pdfgrep – a commandline utility to search text in PDF files

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story by sva_ · 2022-06-27 · 0 comments

rga It works both on Windows and Linux and can be pretty fast. https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by Tajnymag · 2022-02-06 · in Fast File Finder for Windows is a tool for quickly finding files by name

To find a string in very many word files, you can use ripgrep-all: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by orhmeh09 · 2021-12-26 · in An Efficiency Comparison of Latex vs. Word (2014)

…(both file and page) we learned something related to photosynthesis via `rga photoshynthesis`. [0]: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by hobofan · 2021-11-06 · in Pdfsandwich

…thinking of building! The way I planned to do it was to use a similar approach to rga for files ( https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all ) and having a webextension to pull all webpages I vist (filtered via something like…

comment by SahAssar · 2021-07-26 · in A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint

…a new release out of master due to a possible deadlocking issue. This fails to inspire confidence: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/issues/88

comment by nyanpasu64 · 2021-06-15 · in Ripgrep 13.0

…through PDFs, eBooks, ZIPs and other documents. The integration with fzf is also fantastic! [1] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by coffeeri · 2021-06-14 · in Ripgrep 13.0

…recent release, since master is currently not functional. 0: https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron 1: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/pull/77

comment by lafrenierejm · 2020-12-03 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

…Reads I have aren't Send since they come from e.g. zip-rs, so they can't be passed to a thread. [1] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/blob/baca166fdab3d24... [2] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/blob/baca166fdab3d24... [3]…

comment by phiresky · 2020-12-02 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

…it posted here, I still actively use it myself. Also check out the fzf integration in the README: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/blob/master/doc/rga-... Currently the main branch is undergoing a refactor to add support for having…

comment by phiresky · 2020-12-02 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

The "Integration with fzf" example looks really cool: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all#integration-with-fzf

comment by akavel · 2020-12-02 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

Worth to mention ripgrep-all here ( https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all ). It's a regular expression search engine built on ripgrep that can search in virtually anything (pdf files, zip archives, movie subtitles, sqlite databases,…

comment by Gehinnn · 2020-11-28 · in Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source code

…uses ripgrep internally, but can also search oodles of non-plain-text files, including tarballs: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by burntsushi · 2020-08-10 · in Ugrep: Faster Fuzzy Interactive Grep

If you're interested in grepping PDFs (among other formats) another option is ripgrep-all. https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by jdc · 2020-05-22 · in Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?

…[2] https://add0n.com/chrome-reader-view.html [3] https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base [4] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

comment by allenleein · 2020-04-04 · in Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?

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story by yarapavan · 2020-02-07 · 0 comments

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story by giancarlostoro · 2020-02-04 · 0 comments

…this tool might have the same problems, given that it appears to spawn tools like poppler[1]. [1]: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/blob/master/src/adap...

comment by woodruffw · 2019-06-16 · in Show HN: Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

…can search in single-line mode either That works fine, just use `rga --multiline '\n' fname` [1]: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/issues/5

comment by phiresky · 2019-06-16 · in Show HN: Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gz