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script to break apart and name pdf pages

Posted by auburn on November 6th, 2009 — Posted in miscellaneous tech

#!/bin/bash

## use pdftk to break up a single pdf into single pages, and to rename
## page according to the items on a csv file ##
##
## NOTE: clean up and alphabetize the csv file.
## Get rid of quotes and spaces. maybe apostrophes too.

bigPdf=school_transcripts_november.pdf
csv=studentNames.csv
page=1

for name in `cat $csv`
do
pdftk $bigPdf cat $page output results/$name-OFFICIAL.pdf
#echo $page-$name >> results/03test.txt
((page++))
done