ripgrep-all
ripgrep that can also search inside PDFs, Office documents, ebooks, zip files, databases and subtitles.
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About ripgrep-all
ripgrep is fast at searching text files and useless on a PDF. ripgrep-all, or `rga`, wraps it with adapters that extract text first, so one command searches PDFs, DOCX and ODT files, EPUBs, SQLite databases, images with embedded text, and movie subtitles in MKV or MP4.
It descends into archives recursively, so a regex will match inside a zip inside a tar.gz. The adapters are external programs, so on Linux you install pandoc, poppler-utils and ffmpeg alongside it. It also integrates with fzf for interactive searching.
Strengths
- Searches PDFs, Office documents, EPUBs, SQLite databases and subtitles, not just text
- Descends recursively into archives and matches inside them
- Keeps ripgrep's speed and regex syntax
- Integrates with fzf for interactive searching across a document collection
Limitations
- Depends on external tools such as pandoc, poppler-utils and ffmpeg for the adapters
- First run over a large collection is slow until the cache is built
- On Windows the project states Chocolatey or Scoop are the only supported install methods
- Extraction quality is only as good as the underlying converter
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the AGPL.
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Developer
- phiresky
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Finding a phrase you remember somewhere in a folder of PDFs and documents
- Categories
- CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Utilities); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.
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