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Batch Convert PDF to JPG and SVGs
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#!/bin/bash | |
# This script requires ghostscript and pdf2svg to be installed | |
# Use brew to install ghostscript and pdf2svg on macOS | |
# brew install ghostscript pdf2svg | |
# In the terminal, navigate to the directory containing the PDFs you want to convert | |
# Make the script executable by running 'chmod +x batch-convert-pdf-to-jpg-and-svg.sh' | |
# Run the script by running './batch-convert-pdf-to-jpg-and-svg.sh' | |
# Create directories for output files | |
jpgDir="images/jpgs" | |
svgDir="images/svgs" | |
mkdir -p $jpgDir $svgDir | |
# Convert PDFs to JPG | |
for pdf in *.pdf; do | |
gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=jpeg -r300 -sOutputFile="$jpgDir/${pdf%.pdf}-page-%03d.jpg" "$pdf" | |
done | |
# Convert PDFs to SVG | |
for pdf in *.pdf; do | |
baseName="${pdf%.pdf}" | |
pageCount=$(pdfinfo "$pdf" | grep Pages | awk '{print $2}') | |
for ((i=1; i<=pageCount; i++)); do | |
echo "Converting page $i of $pageCount in $pdf to SVG" | |
pdf2svg "$pdf" "$svgDir/${baseName}-page-$(printf "%03d" $i).svg" $i | |
done | |
done |
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