Search text in PDF and output its page number.

[snippsat]

@snippsat I liked your post. Just out of curiosity, how would you find a second or third occurrence of the same word on the same page?

Can split up content then loop over that list.
Example.

import pdfplumber

pdf_file = "sample.pdf"
search_word = 'more'
with pdfplumber.open(pdf_file) as pdf:
    pages = pdf.pages
    for page_nr, pg in enumerate(pages, 1):
        content = pg.extract_text().split()
        for word in content:
            if search_word in word:
                print(f'<{search_word}> found on page {page_nr}')

Output:
<more> found on page 1
<more> found on page 1
<more> found on page 1
.....
<more> found on page 2

Eg collect in a list list and count words found.

import pdfplumber

pdf_file = "sample.pdf"
search_word = 'more'
lst = []
with pdfplumber.open(pdf_file) as pdf:
    pages = pdf.pages
    for page_nr, pg in enumerate(pages):
        content = pg.extract_text().split()
        for word in content:
            if search_word in word:
                lst.append(search_word)

print(f'Search word <{search_word}> found {len(lst)} times in {pdf_file}')

Output:
Search word <more> found 40 times in sample.pdf