Pdfgrep is a tool to search text in PDF files. It works similar to grep.

Pdfgrep is an open source project developed by Hans-Peter Deifel, but only Linux compiled version can be found, after some tested, I found it is really a great project, so I decided to compile it for windows.

compiler, I use MXE, it is a powerful MinGW Cross compiler, it let me easily port many projects to windows.

based on the  git version of Pdfgrep and poppler-0.20.3, and some modification of the source code, I successfully compiled the windows version.

I am studying PoDoFo now, and want a better IDE to work with MinGW, after some search, I decided to use Code::Block(aka CB or CodeBlocks). At office I have easily downloaded the Windows setup package, but when I tried to download at home several times without success and the error message is Too many Clients!.
So I uploaded it to my project hosting at Google Code,
please use another mirror.

• codeblocks-10.05-setup.exe   22.2 MB
• codeblocks-10.05mingw-setup.exe   70.6 MB(includes the GCC compiler and GDB debugger from MinGW)
• Another download mirror:codeblocks-10.05mingw-setup.exe   70.6 MB(includes the GCC compiler and GDB debugger from MinGW)

P.S.

Code::Blocks is a open source, cross platform, free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.
Finally, an IDE with all the features you need, having a consistent look, feel and operation across platforms.
Built around a plugin framework, Code::Blocks can be extended with plugins. Any kind of functionality can be added by installing/coding a plugin. For instance, compiling and debugging functionality is already provided by plugins!

Recently I tried to compile PoDoFo on Windows using Mingw, so i did some researches, and found 6 projects that use PoDoFo as PDF editing library.

• PoDoFoBrowser

PoDoFoBrowser is developed with Qt4 by the same author of PoDoFo, a gui for editing the object structur of PDF files directly.

• Scribus

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.
Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

• Calibre-ebook

calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books

• Comment

Comment is a PDF annotator (tailored to the author’s needs as a mathematician who wants to comment articles and save the comments for later reference with the pdf files).

• OkularAnnotMerge

OkularAnnotMerge is a quick and dirty hack to merge okularannotations (saved in a xml separate from the annotated file) into the pdf.

P.S.

PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format. The name comes from the first letter of PDF (Portable Document Format). A few tools to work with PDF files are already included in the PoDoFo package.
The PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library which includes classes to parse PDF files and modify their contents into memory. The changes can be written back to disk easily. The parser can also be used to extract information from a PDF file (for example the parser could be used in a PDF viewer). Besides parsing PoDoFo includes also very simple classes to create your own PDF files. All classes are documented so it is easy to start writing your own application using PoDoFo.
PoDoFo is written in C++ and the code was sucessfully compiled under Unix, Mac OS X and Windows.