Pdfgrep

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  • PCRE support (by Julius Plenz)

  • Fixed string search

  • Ability to pass multiple passwords to pdfgrep

  • Installation: New configure flag --without-libpcre

  • Installation: pdfgrep now requires c++11

Version 1.3.2 [2015-02-20]

  • A bash completion module

  • Don’t limit output to 80 characters on non-terminals

  • Print a lot less error messages by default (only with >= poppler-0.30.0)

  • New option --debug to print verbose debug output

  • Installation: New configure flag --with-zsh-completion

Version 1.3.1 [2014-08-10]

  • Incompatible change: -r doesn’t follow symlinks

  • A zsh completion module

  • Support for password-protected PDFs

  • Allow to omit . with -r to search current directory

  • Add -p or --page-count to count matches per page (by Jascha Knack)

  • Add -m or --max-count to limit matches per file (by Thibault Marin)

Version 1.3.0 [2012-02-14]

  • Experimental support for libunac (removing accents and ligatures before search)

  • Recursive search [--recursive] (by Mahmut Gundes)

  • Don’t use colors on dumb terminals

  • A few minor bug fixes

  • Use poppler-cpp instead of the poppler core library (by Pino Toscano)

Version 1.2

  • 2 small bugfixes (-h option and closing open files)

  • This is probably the last release that supports poppler < 0.14

Version 1.1

  • Respect the GREP_COLORS environment variable

  • Fix buffer overflow bug

  • Don’t exit on the first error

  • Use terminal width to calculate the context length

Version 1.0

  • First release