Viewing PDFs under Linux is no problem ... So searching for arbitrary text in the PDF may not work. You can convert the file to use more uncompressed text, although that’s no panacea.

The output consists of text fields for each row of pixels containing ASCII characters that make up the larger picture.

Most if not all Linux distributions provide PDF ... There are, however, a number of PDF editors that allow you to change text, add or remove images, and even merge or split files.

On Windows and Mac machines, it’s not too troublesome to add text or drawings (such as signatures) to PDF files, but [Mansour Behabadi] found that on Linux machines, there didn’t seem to be a ...

I opened the test PDF, ran a few quick commands (echo and top), and laughed when I saw it in action. The Linux environment contains a shell, vi (text editor), and several other tools that you can ...

Although the PDF format was primarily designed to display text and images ... Like DoomPDF, the Linux emulation suffers from slow performance. Booting the kernel takes up to a full minute ...

Linux has quite a few PDF readers available, but Okular stands out as the best of the bunch, due to its ability to comment on, highlight, and otherwise annotate PDFs.