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Extract and Combine First Page of each PDF in folder - OS X, requires GS or PDFTK
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pdfcoverpage.txt
#!/bin/bash
#
echo "Start Script"
rm combined.pdf
for file in *.pdf ; do pdftk "$file" cat 1 output "${file%.pdf}-page1.pdf" ; done
pdftk *-page1.pdf cat output combined.pdf
#for file in *.pdf ; do gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="${file%.pdf}-page1.pdf" -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 "$file" ; done
#gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE#pdfwrite -sOutputFile#"combined.pdf" *-page1.pdf
rm *-page1.pdf
echo "End Script"
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eplt commented Sep 7, 2016

You might need to install Ghostscript or PDFTK

Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32505951/pdftk-server-on-os-x-10-11

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