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Created March 26, 2018 14:18
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pdf_merge.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf **.pdf
# jpg to pdf
ls *.JPG | xargs -I% convert % -quality 100 %.pdf
# compress them
ls *.pdf | xargs -I% gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=compressed_% %
# resize
ls compressed_*.pdf | xargs -I@ convert -density 100x100 -quality 45 -resize 50% -compress jpeg @ resized_@
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