Show HN: Search PDFs in the browser using PDFgrep compiled to WebAssembly

4 points by rawsh 3 years ago · 1 comment · 1 min read

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: https://github.com/rawsh/pdfgrep-wasm