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this takes a directory of work items (in this case, PDF's in need of OCR) and processes them, skipping the old items. This particular variant uses a file to feed the selection process (allowing a quick distribution of processing over multiple nodes. (poor mans cluster) pypdfocr worked great on this one. I've written this construct a few bazillio…
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#!/bin/bash | |
DIR=/tmp/ | |
FILES=$DIR/*.pdf | |
cd $DIR | |
#for FILE in $FILES; do | |
while read FILE; do | |
for | |
# echo ">>" | |
# echo "FILE=" $FILE "" | |
[[ $FILE =~ ([0-9]+).pdf ]] | |
SHORTNAME=${BASH_REMATCH[1]} | |
OCR_NAME=$DIR$SHORTNAME"_ocr.pdf" | |
echo "OCR_NAME=" $OCR_NAME "" | |
if [ -f "$OCR_NAME" ]; then | |
echo "File $OCR_NAME exists." | |
else | |
echo "Processing $OCR_NAME file..." | |
# DO NEW WORK HERE | |
fi | |
done <$1 |
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