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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon atgreen

combining two (or more) PDFs in paperless?

Open hummuscience opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

I am trying out paperless and like the simple way it works, thank you :)

I was wondering if there is a way to combine two scans into one in paperless and then rename/file it.

I was looking for the option in PDF-Tools but couldn't find anything. Any idea?

hummuscience avatar Mar 11 '18 19:03 hummuscience

Thanks!

I like your idea. On my Fedora box, poppler-utils provides the pdfunite command for merging PDF documents. Do you have any opinion on the workflow?

atgreen avatar Mar 11 '18 22:03 atgreen

I just saw that poppler can also be installed on mac vie Homebrew so that should also work.

Worflow wise I think something like this would be nice:

  1. Inspect PDFs with [SPC] first
  2. Use the numbers to mark first [1], second[2], third, 4th page (etc) in the paperless buffer
  3. Have a command to merge the ones marked

Then you would have to do that for every combination of PDFs you want to merge and repeat it for the next one etc. A more complex workflow is not needed for now, I guess

What do you think?

hummuscience avatar Mar 12 '18 08:03 hummuscience