first script from utils imgs2pdf

README

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+# Utility Scripts for scanning documents 
+
+
+## Software dependencies:
+pdftk, imagemagick
+
+## Scripts
+### imgs2pdf.sh
+Converts a directory of images onto a single PDF
+
+Usage: ./imgs2pdf.sh imgs-dir-name pdf-filename
+If no pdf-filename is provided, output.pdf will the default file name
+
+

imgs2pdf.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Script to convert directory of images onto a single PDF
+# Software dependencies: pdftk, imagemagick
+# Usage: ./imgs2pdf.sh imgs-dir-name pdf-filename
+#       if no pdf-filename is provided, output.pdf will the default file name
+
+DIR=""
+FILENAME=""
+echo ${#1}
+
+if [ ${#1} -gt 0 ] # check arguments given
+then
+    DIR=$1
+    echo "Images from $DIR directory are being converted onto PDF" 
+
+    if [ ${#2} -gt 0 ]
+    then
+	FILENAME=$2
+
+    else
+	FILENAME=output.pdf
+    fi
+    echo "under the filename: $FILENAME"    
+    PROCESS=true    
+else
+    echo "You forgot to provide the images directory as the first argument"
+    PROCESS=false    
+fi
+
+if $PROCESS true;
+then
+    echo "processing..."
+    for IMG in $DIR* # convert imgs to tmp pdfs
+    do PDF=${IMG%.*}.pdf 
+       convert -density 200 $IMG $PDF
+    done
+    pdftk $DIR*.pdf cat output $FILENAME # concatonate single pdf into 1 pdf 
+
+fi
+
+
+