Can Opus help with searching a PDF via regex? Acrobat, normally cannot search with regex. I am interested in using regex to search the text of some PDF files. I know Opus has some PDF add-ins that are discussed in the forum. I don't know if those add-ins can be helpful with this. Any way add-in or not would work for me. Thanks
dnGrep and Agent Ransack both support regex searching pdf files. They can be called via command line, but I haven't tried that yet.
dnGrep
http://dngrep.github.io
Agent Ransack
https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack
On the Tools > Find Files > Simple tab, you can use Wildcards with the Containing Text field.
On the Advanced tab, you can use both Wildcards and Regular Expressions with the Contains clause type.
I think both should work with PDF files, provided you have PDF software installed that includes a working IFilter to enable searching PDF contents.
Leo's suggestion I knew about but was more interested in getting a way to find the entry a page number of certain text. lxp, dnGrep seems to be a good way to do it because it finds the surrounding text. Thank you both 