mohammad22 / bookmark_trim Goto Github PK

A bunch of command-line helper functions for pdf and djvu files (possibly the whole files in a directory). It can:

• Trim and collapse the bookmarks of the files in the directory.

• Compress the pdf files in the directory, using ghostscript.

• The 'trim', washes the redundant words, i.g., 'Chapter', 'Section', 'Appendix', ... from the bookmark titles. You can have your own collection of stop-words. (See more about this in help: pdf.sh -h). You can disable the trimming.

  Usage:

• First git clone the repository, cd to the cloned directory make pdfb.sh file executable: cmod +x pdfb.sh (For your convenience make a smylink to pdfb.sh on your environmet path). Now, for example:

  pdfb.sh pdf-dir -so

  will trim the bookmarks, without optimizing the pdf file. This requires jpdfbookmarks on your machine.

• To Compress and trim the pdf files with default stop_words. This needs ghostscript on your machine (which by default is available on almost all distributions):

  pdfb.sh pdf-dir

• To trim the word "dummy" from the beginging of bookmark titles:

  pdfb.sh pdf-dir -w dummy

• To use optimization without trimming bookmarks:

  pdfb.sh pdf-dir -s

• Pdf2djvu for all the files of a directory (this is just a wrapper for the pdf2djvu utility for LizardTech (so, it should be available on your machine). Also it picks some very specific parameters for pdf2djvu utility which I found generally useful for converting black-white pdfs to djvu, so use at your own risk.

  python djvub.py pdf-dir

• To just trim the word "dummy" without optimization:

  pdfb.sh pdf-dir -so -w dummy