Search index information in PDF, HTML, etc.

quorten

2017-03-06

Categories: media-prog   important  
Tags: media-prog   important  

Important! For searchable information, how do you convert PDF and HTML to plain text so that you can just do plain greps with more ease?

20170306/DuckDuckGo unix convert pdf to plain text
20170306/https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/converter-pdf-files-to-text-format-command/
20170306/DuckDuckGo unix convert html to text
20170306/http://superuser.com/questions/673878/how-to-convert-html-to-text
20170306/https://linux.die.net/man/1/html2text
20170306/https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1527895

So, these are the available tools that I could find thus far.

• pdftotext from poppler-utils
• lynx --dump for HTML to text
• html2text is another option

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