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by Jackson_Fleck 781 days ago
I think you can hack together something in pdf.js but you have to deal with the pain of digging through its code. I’m working on something of the sort in an application I’ve built but it’s v much “nice to have”.

If you’re talking about raw pdfs then you are at the whim of the encoding surely? I’ve always found Adobe etc to have utterly crap searches