mergepdf

Small script to merge multiple pdfs into one

The MacOS's preview app has this functionality, but its slow, manual, and annoying, when its not freezing on you ; and most websites only allow you to do one merge per day, so i got annoyed and wrote this.

Notes :

1. if you want to make work like a regular terminal command follow the steps outlined by johnathan (3rd answer) on stackoverflow

   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3560326/how-to-make-a-shell-script-global.

2. This script has been tested on the Mac and Linux systems.

Usage

 ./mergepdf.sh  [ -options ]  <files-to-be-merged>/<path-to-folder>  < name-for-output-file >
   flag options: 
        -a : merge all the files in a folder, and then specify the folder. For current directory use .        (TODO - the default is the current folder)
        -s : some of the files , and then list them                                                           (TODO - the default is -s, with the first 2+ file names assumed to be the onesto be merged and last being the name-of-output-file)
        -f : full pathname not specified -- program will find the full filepath for all files ( if they exist )

Examples

  ./mergepdf.sh -a . final_study_guide.pdf     : saves all the files in the current directory into the pdf 'final_study_guide.pdf'
  ./mergepdf.sh -s  first.pdf  second.pdf first_and_second_merged.pdf  : saves 'first.pdf' & 'second.pdf' into 'first_and_second_merged.pdf'

Requirements

• You need Python 3.6+ and pip to install and use this script
• You need PyPDF2 as well.
• bash

Installing dependancies

pip install -r requirements.txt