This is really great.
Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
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Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Works on non-Windows. ripgrep is notoriously fast. Command line interface. Not comically priced at 59.95 USD.
Why is there an expectation that every application should be free or cheap? IMHO $60 is very reasonable for a program that can save a lot of time for the user. And developers also have to eat, and might want to some day retire.
$60 may not be much for you; it may be worth it for you. For others it may not be.
Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
#43Is anyone preferring some other search tool other than Spotlight on macOS ?
ripgrep in emacs for me.
Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
#44I noticed that you can use Tesseract as an OCR adapter for rga. Tesseract is written in python, IIRC, and in the OP it comes with a warning that it’s slow and not enabled by default. Are there any other fast, reliable OCR libs out there? Or any rust OCR backends?
I don't think the problem necessarily is that Tesseract is slow, but that the whole process of rendering a PDF to a series of PNGs on which you can then run OCR is slow (which is what it does in the background).
The process of converting all pages to raster images and then OCR-ing each one takes hours for PDFs hundreds of pages long. This workflow is not suitable for instant search. For non OCR-ed PDFs it's worth to pregenerate the text.
Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
#45One a related note there is one program that I absolutely miss on Linux called everything (on windows). The closest I can find is mlocate but it does not have a GUI but more importantly it does not index my Windows or NTFS drives. Would appreciate any suggestions if someone knows something like 'everything' for Ubuntu.
To traverse my files I use the combo ranger + autojump. It is not GUI and you need to traverse a directory at least once before accessing it automatically, but I just wanted to mention this. Another (CLI) software that seem to do what you want is fzf.
Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
#46thanks but it's way faster to have my stuff in G drive
that way I can open a browser tab, wait 5 seconds for it to load, locate the new screen location of the search bar, click it, wait for javascript to finish loading so I can click the search bar, click it for real this time, mistype because there's some kind of contenteditable event jank, wait 5 seconds for my results to come up, fix the typo, and just have my results waiting for me
I'm not going to learn a new tool when web is fine
Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
#47thanks but it's way faster to have my stuff in G drive that way I can open a browser tab, wait 5 seconds for it to load, locate the new screen location of the search bar, click it, wait for javascript to finish loading so I can click the search bar, click it for real this time, mistype because there's some kind of contenteditable event jank, wait 5 seconds for my results to come up, fix the typo, and just have my res…
If you're using Duckduckgo, just search ''!drive search-term'' or ''search term !drive'' or ''search !drive term''
More !operators here - https://duckduckgo.com/bang
Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think the problem necessarily is that Tesseract is slow, but that the whole process of rendering a PDF to a series of PNGs on which you can then run OCR is slow (which is what it does in the background).
The process of converting all pages to raster images and then OCR-ing each one takes hours for PDFs hundreds of pages long. This workflow is not suitable for instant search. For non OCR-ed PDFs it's worth to pregenerate the text.
That's why rga comes with a cache. I've occasionally used the Tesseract adapter with good success (results-wise), and after the inital rendering and indexing, it's fast enough to use.
Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
#49thanks but it's way faster to have my stuff in G drive that way I can open a browser tab, wait 5 seconds for it to load, locate the new screen location of the search bar, click it, wait for javascript to finish loading so I can click the search bar, click it for real this time, mistype because there's some kind of contenteditable event jank, wait 5 seconds for my results to come up, fix the typo, and just have my res…
Can't tell if this is sarcasm.
Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
#50thanks but it's way faster to have my stuff in G drive that way I can open a browser tab, wait 5 seconds for it to load, locate the new screen location of the search bar, click it, wait for javascript to finish loading so I can click the search bar, click it for real this time, mistype because there's some kind of contenteditable event jank, wait 5 seconds for my results to come up, fix the typo, and just have my res…
If you're using Duckduckgo, just search ''!drive search-term'' or ''search term !drive'' or ''search !drive term'' More !operators here - https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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