Trying to sift through these last night, I hopelessly wanted a service to transform a collection of PDF files into a searchable text database in one pass. Opening a few files haphazardly, I only found judicial minutiae.
> I hopelessly wanted a service to transform a collection of PDF files into a searchable text database in one pass.
DocumentCloud has the search function. A lot of the files aren't machine-readable, so current resources are limited.