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Show HN: Search PDFs using WASM in the browser (pdfgrep.com)
2 points by rawsh 1221 days ago
pdfgrep.org is a CLI tool I use a lot to reference documents from classes. I’ve been playing around with Emscripten and I wanted to make a UI version of the tool. All documents stay local so there is no upload time, and search time is similar to the native binary. Click on a search result to open a preview of the PDF. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Dockerfile source code (warning: very shit): https://github.com/rawsh/pdfgrep-wasm