search multiple PDFs for common text

dale wrote:

[Agent Ransack] isn't available in Microsoft store so I don't know
yet if I want to install it

What is the world coming to...

Agent Ransack is the easy solution. If the original poster does not
want to install it, that is his personal problem.

dale wrote:

These aren't books, though might be encoded the same way

Then why did you ask? You could not find anything if they were
encoded. At least not unless you told us what the encoding is.

Cut out the pointless drivel.

Peter Flynn wrote:

dale wrote:

Hi,

I have about 100 PDF files I would like to search for common
words.

"word" for instance

prefer not to write a script, but can if the only option

using Windows 10, so the scripting language would be preferably
powershell

That sounds like gross overkill for something this simple.

It also sounds like something the poster is incapable of doing.

The poster is asking how to find text in files...

Then it pretends like maybe the text is encoded, as if it even knows
what encoding is, or as if that would be relevant to the question
as stated in its original post, without having any idea what that
imaginary encoding might be.

But seriously.