a collection of (linux) utility scripts to deal with pdf presentations at uni
Feel free to contribute: send pull request / open up issues. While these utils were created for my personal use, I thought others (e.g. uni students) could make use of them as well. The better the feature set and system support, the better the aid :)
When nix-shell is installed, dependencies should be automatically downloaded on script execution. I assume the user has nix-shell installed when listing run commands.
The dependencies for this script can also be installed via pip install -r requirements.txt.
This utility removes the "animation" (step-by-step reveal) slides from a pdf.
- It takes a pdf file that was exported from a presentation.
- It detects the image difference between two consecutive pages (assuming white background).
- It omits a page if its consecutive page only enhances it.
Run it via: ./pdfdeanimate-image.py pdffile.pdf
The output will be stripped-pdffile.pdf.
This utility converts each page of a pdf into a minimized 720-width svg.
It was created for embedding single pdf pages into Notion, in order to add text notes between pages. If you're looking for a simple image viewer to open the svgs in that has drag-and-drop support, I can recommend Eye of GNOME (eog).
Run the utility via: ./pdf2msvg.sh pdffile.pdf [program_to_open_svg_with]
The output will be pdffile-pages/pdffile-pageNNN.svg.