Best way to search files on remote server? (lemmy.zip)

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Context: my father is a lawyer and therefore has a bajillion pdf files that were digitised, stored in a server. I’ve gotten an idea on how to do OCR in all of them.

But after that, how can I make them easily searchable? (Keep in mind that unfortunately, the directory structure is important information to classify the files, aka you may have a path like clientABC/caseAV1/d.pdf

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[-] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Search them for words? Try pdfgrep with recursive - very easy to setup and try. If you feel like that's taking too long, you probably need to accept some simplifications/helper structures.

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