There is a fine utility to do so, called apropos.
For example, I want to know all commands that operate on pdf files, like conversion from pdf to something else and vice versa, I will run
uid@host:~/apropos pdf
acroread (1) - Adobe PDF Viewer for viewing PDF files on X Window System.
dvipdf (1) - Convert TeX DVI file to PDF using ghostscript and dvips
evince-thumbnailer (1) - create png thumbnails from PostScript and PDF documents
fix-qdf (1) - repair PDF files in QDF form after editing
foomatic-ppdfile (1) - Generate a PPD file for a given printer/driver combo
ghostscript (1) - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer)
gs (1) - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer)
gsnd (1) - Run ghostscript (PostScript and PDF engine) without display
pdf2dsc (1) - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document
pdf2ps (1) - Ghostscript PDF to PostScript translator
pdffonts (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.00)
pdfimages (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version 3.00)
pdfinfo (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.00)
pdfopt (1) - Ghostscript PDF Optimizer
pdfseparate (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
pdftocairo (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PNG/JPEG/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG using cairo
pdftohtml (1) - program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images
pdftoppm (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 3.00)
pdftops (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript converter (version 3.00)
pdftotext (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00)
pdfunite (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) page merger
ps2ascii (1) - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII
ps2pdf (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
ps2pdf12 (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
ps2pdf13 (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
ps2pdf14 (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
ps2pdfwr (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying CompatibilityLevel, using ghostscript
qpdf (1) - PDF transformation software
run "man apropos" for extra features with it.
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