https://github.com/aspiers/pdfexploder

Tools for exploding PDFs into fragments based on an index
https://github.com/aspiers/pdfexploder

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Tools for exploding PDFs into fragments based on an index

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aspiers/pdfexploder
• Owner: aspiers
• Created: 2014-07-15T11:55:23.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-02-28T12:03:21.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-01T00:49:02.772Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: fragmenter, indexes, latex, pdf, pdf-generation, ruby
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 12.7 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# PDFexploder

This utility can "explode" large PDFs into numerous smaller fragments

(files) based on a CSV-formatted index file which defines the names

and starting/ending pages of each section fragment.  The section

fragments are each extracted by invoking

[`pdfjam`](http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/firth/software/pdfjam/),

and the resulting files are named in a way which makes their source document and originating page numbers clear.

Additionally, [LaTeX](https://www.latex-project.org/) is used to

generate an index PDF which lists all the section fragments as

hyperlinks, for ease of navigation.  This index is typically built

from the [`index.latex.erb` template](index.latex.erb) but you can

use any LaTeX template written in [eRuby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERuby)

(`.erb`) file syntax.

## Usage

    ./bin/build.rb CSV LATEX-TEMPLATE PDF-DIR INDEX-DIR OUTPUT-DIR

See https://github.com/aspiers/book-indices for an example of how to

write the CSV index files.

## Similar software

- https://git.zx2c4.com/realbook-splitter/tree/ (Python script)

- http://www.pdfsam.org/pdfsam-basic/ (cross-platform)

- https://github.com/trevorprinn/RealBookExtractor/wiki (Windows only)

Please [edit this file and then submit a pull request](https://github.com/aspiers/PDFexploder/edit/master/README.md)

if you know of any other similar software - thanks!