PDF Search Engine on Ubuntu For Free

UltraFinder is the ultimate PDF files search tool. UltraFinder parses the text of PDF files, ignoring embedded graphics and objects, providing you a list of PDF files matching your search text including the matches themselves!

How To Search a PDF for Words Using a Browser Using any browser, open a PDF document (right-click > Open with). Press CTRL+F or CMD+F, depending on your operating system. Alternatively, access the Find function in the menu bar. Type and navigate between search results using the arrows next to the search box.

Okular - The Best Free PDF Editor for Ubuntu One of the best things about choosing Okular over others is the number of annotation features that you will get. Under the "Reviews" section of the program, you get various annotation options including popup notes, highlighter, stamps, and even inline notes.

Choose Edit > Find (Ctrl/Command+F). Type the text you want to search for in the text box on the Find toolbar. To replace text, click Replace With to expand the toolbar, then type the replacement text in the Replace With text box.

Evince PDF Viewer. The Linux-based OS PDF opener by Gnome, Evince PDF Viewer is an amazing add-on, you can easily download it from the repositories of any Linux-based OS including Ubuntu and Pacman to name a few.

However, we must note that PDF is a binary format, and plain text search commands such as grep and sed will not work as expected on PDF files. In this tutorial, we'll look at some specialized commands that can be used to search for strings in PDF files.

El Ubuntu document viewer allows us to search a PDF in two ways: with the shortcut Ctrl + F or by clicking on the magnifying glass.