Manaphy91 · January 17, 2016 22:39 · Jan 17, 2016
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Description
+# A simple script useful to rotate a series of scanned pdfs files and, after
+# that, concat them.
+# manage_scans.bash takes as input three arguments (one of which is optional):
+# - source: a path to the folder of source pdf files to manage;
+# - destination: a path to the folder where you will see a new pdf file and
+#   where new temp files will be put
+# - output (optional): the name of the file which will be created at the end
+#   of execution
+
+if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
+	echo -e "usage $0: $0 source destination [output]\n"
+	cat $0 | sed -n '3,11 s/# //p'
+	exit 0
+elif [[ ! -d $1 || ! -r $1 ]]; then
+	echo "Error: path passed as source isn't a directory or ins't readable!" 1>&2
+	exit 1
+elif [[ ! -d $2 || ! -r $2 ]]; then
+	echo "Error: path passed as destination isn't a directory or ins't readable!" 1>&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ -z $3 ]]; then
+	output="output.pdf"
+else
+	output=$3
+fi
+
+if ! pdftk > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+	echo -e "Error: pdftk isn't actually installed!\nPlease install it and then rerun this script." 1>&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+src=${1%/}
+dest=${2%/}
+
+i=0
+for arg in `ls -1 $src/*.pdf`; do
+	file=`basename $arg`
+	if [ `expr $i % 2` -eq 0 ]; then
+		pdftk $arg cat 1south output $dest/$file
+	else
+		cp -p $arg $dest
+	fi
+	i=$(($i + 1))
+done
+
+# concat every temp pdf files to create a new one
+pdftk $dest/*.pdf cat output $dest/$output
+# delete every temp pdf files in $dest folder
+ls $dest/*.pdf | grep -v $output | xargs rm
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