A python script that copies PDF files from a source directory into a destination directory and extracts pages as PNG images and fulltext.

The script is very barebones at the moment but functional.

python ./organizepdfs.py ~/source ~/destination

The source directory contains the PDF files you want to move. The destination directory should look like this:

.
|-- /images
|-- /pdfs
|-- /text

The original PDFs will be copied to the /pdfs directory. Each page of a PDF will be converted into a small 500px width PNG image and saved to the /images directory with the page number appended to the file name. The fulltext will also be extracted and saved as .txt files in /text.

There are several dependencies including:

GraphicsMagick:

[aptitude | port | brew] install graphicsmagick

Ghostscript:

[aptitude | port | brew] install ghostscript