alt Hacker News#!/bin/bash
# Convert images to PDF
img2pdf *.jpg -o images.pdf
# Merge PDFs
pdfunite file1.pdf file2.pdf images.pdf merged.pdf
# Compress
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook \ -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=compressed.pdf merged.pdf
# Remove unwanted pages (e.g., page 3)
pdftk compressed.pdf cat 1-2 4-end output final.pdf
# Add page numbers
pdfjam final.pdf --outfile final_numbered.pdf --pagecommand '{}' --landscape
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This is very cool, are all these command-line tools open-source?
You know what. I will share my script in the morning.
I used scantailor go scan a book. That gave out tif files.
So I built a script to convert them to jpg, then merge into PDF. Then OCR and add the text layer on PDF. Then compress.
I know this for a niche automation..... web OTOH where normies reside and are scared by terminal, it wont work.
Been using pdftk for years now but im only person who can use it in my office.
I'll be adding compression support for BreezePDF, so this can be done in a click