Alternatives

Products that do what Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gz does

1. 1CS
   Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs▲73

   2015 · searchablepdfs.org

2. 2OP
   Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents▲285

   2017 · github.com

3. 3PE
   PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs▲93

   2015 · metachris.com

4. 4PP
   PDF parsing in Racket, my weekend project▲101

   2012 · planet.racket-lang.org

5. 5WF
   Wget-finder▲130

   2015 · javier.io

6. 6MS
   Memos – Search engine for your screenshots and photos▲112

   2019 · memos.org

7. 7ST
   Scanning the Web for Security.txt Files▲50

   2021 · github.com

8. 8OG
   Open GIF Search▲60

   2020 · opengif.net

9. 9GA
   Grokbit, a better way to search and browse code▲13

   2016 · grokbit.com

10. 10TA
    Track and Control Your PDFs▲24

    2018 · helprange.com

11. 11MO
    Mirror of all PDFs from the IACR's eprint archive in a Git repo▲8

    2019 · github.com

12. 12AS
    ArXivist, search and store papers from a command line▲32

    2020 · github.com

13. 13WA
    Web app to compare various PDF-to-text libraries easily▲19

    2020 · 138.68.233.101

14. 14P
    PDFGate▲5

    Sep 2025 · pdfgate.com

15. 15QS
    Quartermaster – Search and download torrents from the terminal▲8

    2023 · github.com

16. 16IS
    Intelligently search packages from your shell▲15

    2013 · github.com

17. 17UG
    Understand GitHub repos, PDF docs through mindmaps, RAG search▲8

    2025 · github.com

18. 18PC
    PGet – Chunk downloader for python▲25

    2017 · github.com

19. 19AA
    Anchorage: a CLI to bulk archive you bookmark collection▲13

    2021 · github.com

20. 20AT
    A torrent search engine to search various public indexes▲8

    2017 · snowfl.com

21. 21DS
    Desktop search for your GitHub, GDocs, Jira, and more▲12

    2017 · onebar.io

22. 22DW
    DMS with Folders, Tags, OCR for PDFs, TIFF and JEPG formats▲17

    2020 · github.com

23. 23MA
    MightyGrep - a file finding and text searching tool▲5

    2023 · ksylvestre.itch.io

24. 24M
    MightyGrep▲7

    A program I used stopped getting updates, so I made my own version of it. It's a fast plaintext search utility in a GUI. It's great for finding text in code projects, log files, configs, anything plaintext! Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Free version limitations are a splash screen and limited history entries.

    Nov 2025 · ksylvestre.itch.io

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