For many years i have been facing this simple problem. I download a lot of PDFs; usually they are papers, electronic academic books in the PDF format and the life. There may have been a few non academic content, such as fiction. Earlier I used to categorise them while saving them on the local storage. As an aside, this local storage is the hard disk but this can also be a network drive which is reachable by the local file commands (e.g. ls or file explorers). A lot of the time, it was or still is possible for me to recall which directory a particular paper had been saved into. As the number of papers or files keeps growing, it becomes difficult to track or remember. Therefore, it was on my mind for many months to write a small software which I could use to search the contents of the PDFs; hopefully quickly and efficiently. I did not want an exact and accurate search; if at all this was possible.
The repository here is the fruition of such efforts. This is a pure Python package. I have written an extensive README. Feel free to use it. For both positive, negative suggestions and suggestions for improvement, feel free to contact me at the e-mail ID mentioned in the README.
Of course, this can be extended to search DOC files to; drop me a line if you want that functionality.
