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Clapgrep vs pdfgrep: catalog facts
Clapgrep	pdfgrep
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.	Free Free software under the GPL version 2 or later.
Linux	Linux, Command line
Searches inside PDF files as well as plain text Searches a whole folder in one pass	Familiar grep options such as -r, -i, -n and -c Searches many PDFs at once
Linux only Small project maintained by a single developer	Command line only Only searches text layers, so scanned PDFs without OCR return nothing
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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