#!/usr/bin/env bash # pdf-txt — extract clean text from OCR'd PDFs, recursively # # Usage: pdf-txt [...] # # can be a .pdf file or a directory (walked recursively). # For each PDF with a text layer, writes a sibling .txt file using # pdftotext -layout, with "=== Page N ===" markers inserted. # Skips PDFs without a text layer. # Skips PDFs whose .txt is newer than the source. set -eu die() { printf "ERROR: %s\n" "$*" >&2; exit 1; } need() { command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "Missing: $1 (apt install $2)"; } need pdftotext poppler-utils need find findutils need awk gawk processed=0; skipped_no_ocr=0; skipped_existing=0; failed=0 extract_one() { local pdf="$1" local txt="${pdf%.[Pp][Dd][Ff]}.txt" if [ -f "$txt" ] && [ "$txt" -nt "$pdf" ]; then printf " up-to-date %s\n" "$pdf" skipped_existing=$((skipped_existing + 1)) return 0 fi # OCR/text-layer detection: sample first 3 pages local tmp; tmp=$(mktemp) pdftotext -l 3 "$pdf" "$tmp" 2>/dev/null || true local nchars; nchars=$(tr -d '[:space:]' < "$tmp" | wc -c) rm -f "$tmp" if [ "$nchars" -lt 50 ]; then printf " no OCR %s\n" "$pdf" skipped_no_ocr=$((skipped_no_ocr + 1)) return 0 fi if pdftotext -layout "$pdf" - 2>/dev/null | awk ' BEGIN { page = 1; printf "=== Page %d ===\n\n", page } /\014/ { page++; printf "\n=== Page %d ===\n\n", page; next } { print } ' > "$txt"; then printf " extracted %s\n" "$txt" processed=$((processed + 1)) else rm -f "$txt" printf " FAILED %s\n" "$pdf" >&2 failed=$((failed + 1)) fi } walk() { local target="$1" if [ -f "$target" ]; then case "$target" in *.pdf|*.PDF) extract_one "$target" ;; *) printf " not a PDF %s\n" "$target" >&2 ;; esac elif [ -d "$target" ]; then while IFS= read -r -d '' pdf; do extract_one "$pdf" done < <(find "$target" -type f -iname '*.pdf' -print0 | sort -z) else printf " not found %s\n" "$target" >&2 fi } [ $# -ge 1 ] || die "Usage: pdf-txt [...]" for arg in "$@"; do walk "$arg"; done printf "\nDone. processed=%d no_ocr=%d up_to_date=%d failed=%d\n" \ "$processed" "$skipped_no_ocr" "$skipped_existing" "$failed"