pdfscripts

• Copyright (c) 2020 Julian Prester
• License: MIT
• Description: Small set of Python scripts for PDF library interaction and manipulation

Features

• Open PDF(s)
• Remove annotations from PDF(s)
• Extract a subset of PDF(s) from a library

Usage

pdfscripts consists of a set of scripts that can be called via the command line. Some of the scripts rely on a library folder that contains PDF documents that are uniquely identifiable via a Bibtex key. The description for each script is listed below.

open_pdf

usage: open_pdf.py [-h] [-l LIBRARY] [pdf [pdf ...]]

Open PDF(s) from library folder using Bibtex citation keys.

positional arguments:
  pdf                   PDF files

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l LIBRARY, --library LIBRARY
                        Library folder

remove_annotations

usage: remove_annotations.py [-h] [pdf [pdf ...]]

Remove annotations from PDF(s).

positional arguments:
  pdf         PDF files

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

extract_subset

usage: extract_subset.py [-h] [-l LIBRARY] [-o OUT] csv

Extract PDF(s) from a folder or library based on a set of Bibtex citation keys from a csv file.

positional arguments:
  csv                   Input csv file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l LIBRARY, --library LIBRARY
                        Library folder
  -o OUT, --out OUT     Export output folder