File Processing

Several custom scripts to aid in file processing.

Install

pip install -r requirements.txt

html2md

Replaces the folder subfolders with a Markdown files.

• Input: A folder (non-recursive), only processes HTML files in the root directory's immediate subfolders
• Output: Markdown files named after the subfolders

Usage

./html2md.py /path/to/folder

pdf2md

Replaces the PDF with a Markdown file.

• Input: A PDF file
• Output: A Markdown file (in the same folder as the input)

Usage

./pdf2md.py /path/to/file.pdf

pdf_cleaner

Replaces PDFs with cleaned versions.

• Input: A folder (recursive), cleans every PDF under it.
• Output: Replaces every PDF with its cleaned version.

Usage

./pdf_cleaner.py /path/to/folder

text_extractor

Extracts the first page's text via OCR and prints it to the terminal.

• Input: A PDF file
• Output: Printed to stdout (no files created)

Usage

./text_extractor.py /path/to/file.pdf

Dependencies

• Requires Tesseract OCR to be installed on your system.
• On macOS (Homebrew): brew install tesseract

merge_pdf

Merges multiple PDFs into one in the order provided.

• Input: Output path followed by input PDF paths (2 or more)
• Output: A single merged PDF at the output path

Usage

./merge_pdf.py /path/to/output.pdf /path/to/1.pdf /path/to/2.pdf ...