So fun, I looked for it exactly yesterday and see this article on the front page on dev.to today.
Yesterday, I downloaded PDF Arranger from the Ubuntu App Store and it worked like a charm (saw that imagemagick trick but wanted to have graphical based tool 😉).
For a mass pdf merging solution, I developed a tool in Python.
Merge Pdfs automatically in a folder based on the file names.
Merge Pdfs
A python module to merge a bunch of Pdf files.
Why would you want to merge bunch of pdf files?
A few months ago now, I purchased this mobile scanner
The IRIScan Anywhere scanner.
This scanner is very portable and I am using it very often to scan all sort of documents I am receiving over mail and that I want to archive to be sure that I have a digital copy.
It is also useful to scan and store the receipt I receive from stores.
but
The scanner can't merge files during scanning. It must be done on post-processing through their software.
That's why I wanted to automate the process a little.
1. Prepare your files.
Let's consider that you scan (or have by any other method) a lot of different pdf files.
You need to rename your files according to the following pattern :
So fun, I looked for it exactly yesterday and see this article on the front page on dev.to today.
Yesterday, I downloaded PDF Arranger from the Ubuntu App Store and it worked like a charm (saw that imagemagick trick but wanted to have graphical based tool 😉).
For a mass pdf merging solution, I developed a tool in Python.
Merge Pdfs automatically in a folder based on the file names.
Merge Pdfs
A python module to merge a bunch of Pdf files.
Why would you want to merge bunch of pdf files?
A few months ago now, I purchased this mobile scanner The IRIScan Anywhere scanner.
This scanner is very portable and I am using it very often to scan all sort of documents I am receiving over mail and that I want to archive to be sure that I have a digital copy.
It is also useful to scan and store the receipt I receive from stores.
but
The scanner can't merge files during scanning. It must be done on post-processing through their software.
That's why I wanted to automate the process a little.
1. Prepare your files.
Let's consider that you scan (or have by any other method) a lot of different pdf files.
You need to rename your files according to the following pattern :
If that can help anyone facing the same issue as I did. 😉
Good to hear that it helped. Sure, I will definitely look into your repo.