I use Evince also. I find it very handy.

If don't like anything that exists, then you can always roll your own with the functionality that you want. Then open source it for everyone else.

Few examples:
http://theautomatic.net/2020/01/21/h...s-with-python/
https://realpython.com/pdf-python/
https://stackabuse.com/working-with-...litting-pages/
https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF
https://www.codespeedy.com/how-to-cr...-using-python/
https://www.codespeedy.com/read-pdf-...-line-by-line/
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter13/


Also look at all of these.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...rs_and_viewers
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PDF,_PS_and_DjVu

Oh the joys of necroposting! It seems nobody mentioned pdfgrep yet.