What does HackerNews think of ripgrep-all?
rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.
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The article talks about rg (ripgrep) but not rga (ripgrepall)[1] which extends rg to other file types like pdf, tar, zip. The rga website provides a function on integrating it with fzf[2] to interactively search documents from terminal.
[1] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
[2] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/blob/master/doc/rga-...
I wanted to say 'au contrer' to your 'screenshots are not searchable' and link this[0] but I don't actually see images in the readme.. I swear it was there, maybe it's a buried extra flag..
Yes, I haven’t tried it myself yet.
See also https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all (`ripgrep`, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.)
rga
It works both on Windows and Linux and can be pretty fast.
To find a string in very many word files, you can use ripgrep-all: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
On an even more macro level I've had a great experience with ripgrep-all[0], which uses Tesseract internally.
I have e.g. a directory with all weekly lecture slides for one lecture, and can directly find where (both file and page) we learned something related to photosynthesis via `rga photoshynthesis`.