Tutorial: bulk pdf to djvu conversion

[manyroads]

Should you wish to perform bulk conversion of pdf files to djvu, the following 3 step process will accomplish the task:

First, install pdf2djvu.

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 apt-get install pdf2djvu

Second run this command from a termial session started in the directory containing your pdf files.

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  for file in *.pdf; do pdf2djvu -o "${file%.pdf}.djvu" "$file"  --no-page-titles; done

Edit: (per @fehlix's recommendation) step 2 & 3 are now combined into a single step!


References:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/270289/ ... n-a-folder
https://github.com/jwilk/pdf2djvu/issues/113

[fehlix]

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 for file in *.pdf; do pdf2djvu -o "$file.djvu" "$file"  --no-page-titles; done

... can't resist ...
to avoid the 3rd rename step
adjust conversion step 2 as such:

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 for file in *.pdf; do pdf2djvu -o "${file%.pdf}.djvu" "$file"  --no-page-titles; done

[Jerry3904]

@many: thanks!

[bled]

gentlemans!!!
in debiandog we have single click converter
(as thunar custom action and gui app)


http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... start=1365

[fehlix]

gentlemans!!!
in debiandog we have single click converter
(as thunar custom action and gui app)


http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... start=1365

Thanks, the script provided in that link in Thunar custom actions looks nice:
pdf-to-djvu

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#!/bin/bash

OLDIFS="$IFS"
IFS=$'\n'

for PDF in "$@"; do
FILE="${PDF%.*}"
echo "Which pages ? e.g. type: 1-6, for all pages, press ENTER"
read pages
if [ -n "$pages" ]; then
pdf2djvu -o "$FILE".djvu "$PDF" --pages=$pages
else
pdf2djvu -o "$FILE".djvu "$PDF"
fi
done

IFS="$OLDIFS"
read -s -n 1 -p "Press any key to close . . ."

I would probaly add a double check, to have it apply only on pdf files.
As currently this script would try to take any file to convert,
so the script will not have only rely onto Thunar-custom action file-rules.
(e.g. just in case you start it from the command line or make the custom action rules wrongly. )
Just change the line add the beginnin of the for loop like
and add a line before this line

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FILE="${PDF%.*}"

to check and do nothing on that file of not a .pdf file:

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[ "${PDF%.pdf}" = "${PDF}" ] && continue

[manyroads]

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 for file in *.pdf; do pdf2djvu -o "$file.djvu" "$file"  --no-page-titles; done

... can't resist ...
to avoid the 3rd rename step
adjust conversion step 2 as such:

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 for file in *.pdf; do pdf2djvu -o "${file%.pdf}.djvu" "$file"  --no-page-titles; done

Fixed. Thank you!

[manyroads]

adjust conversion step 2 as such:

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 for file in *.pdf; do pdf2djvu -o "${file%.pdf}.djvu" "$file"  --no-page-titles; done

Fixed. Thank you!

@fehlix This works wonderfully! Vielen dank!!!

[manyroads]

gentlemans!!!
in debiandog we have single click converter
(as thunar custom action and gui app)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... start=1365

Thank you very much @bled. This works splendidly!

I have attached both the script and an image of the installation instructions.

pdf-to-djvu.png

Note: remove the gz extension before moving the script to usr/local/bin

pdf-to-djvu.gz

[manyroads]

In a similar vein, I have added a Thunar Custom Action to magically fix pdfs that are not searchable... and make them searchable. To make this function work, you need to install pdfsandwich (I did that from MXPI stable). Make certain you also have xterm installed, if not then install it fro MXPI stable, as well.

Once you have those guys installed edit your Thunar Custom Actions to look like the following images.

Image1.png

Image2.png

Once those tasks are complete, restart Thunar (open & close it) and you are ready to make your unsearchable pdf files searchable (using Thunar).