Search PDFs, Office files, ebooks, and archives with one query before manual review
Uses ripgrep-all to run one full-text search across mixed document and archive formats so an agent can find evidence without separately extracting every file type first. Best when a workflow has PDFs, Office documents, ebooks, media sidecars, or compressed bundles that need fast on-demand search.
Prerequisites
ripgrep; optional adapters and dependencies such as pandoc, poppler, and ffmpeg.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- brew install rga
- brew install pandoc poppler ffmpeg
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
Here is an example directory with different file types:
Linux x64, macOS and Windows binaries are available in GitHub Releases.
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/HEAD/README.md