markostam/pdf-scripts

Bash scripts to convert a folder of PDF's into concatenated JPG's, TXT files and pagewise JPG's.

pdfJpg.sh

Bash script to convert a bunch of PDF's in a folder into a bunch concatenated JPG's of a given height

requires Imagemagick (available on pip on OSX or apt-get on linux)

Usage

cd /path/to/script

./pdfJpg.sh

follow prompts

Output

3 folders created in the original dataset location:

original pdfs:

/og_pdf

pagewise jpgs:

/small_jpgs

concatenated jpgs:

/concat_jpg

pdfTxt.sh

Script to convert a bunch of PDF's into a bunch extracted .TXT's

requires pdf2text (brew install poppler on OSX)

Usage

cd /path/to/script

./pdfTxt.sh

follow prompts

Output

1 folders created in the destination location:

converted txt's:

/txt			

additional

additional scripts if needed