meillo@0: pdfconcat
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meillo@0: This program concatenates PDF files and optionally converts text
meillo@0: within them into bitmaps. The concatenation is done with Ghostscript (gs);
meillo@0: the detextification is done with a gs-conversion to tiff and tiff2pdf
meillo@0: (package libtiff-tools) afterwards. Detextification is only in gray-scale.
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meillo@0: Contents:
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meillo@0: - bin/pdfconcat		shell script to concatenate PDF files
meillo@0: - bin/pdfdetextify	shell script to convert text to images in PDF files
meillo@0: - pdfconcat.php		web interface to invoke the scripts
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: - log			log file of web interface invocations (writable)
meillo@0: - bin/monthly		shell script to sum up the usage by month
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: - upload/		directory to store the converted files (writable)
meillo@0: - bin/cleanup.cron	helper script to remove old uploaded files
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meillo@0: - .user.ini		php config file to increase the max upload file size
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meillo@0: Installation:
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meillo@0: You need a Unix system. Ensure you have gs and tiff2pdf (in the package
meillo@0: libtiff-tools) available.
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meillo@0: To use the bin/pdf* tools on the command line only, copy them to your $PATH
meillo@0: and make them executable.
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: To set up the program including the web interface, copy the files to a place
meillo@0: below the webserver root. Make bin/pdf{concat,detextify} executable for
meillo@0: www-data. Make the log and the upload directory writable by www-data. Install
meillo@0: a cronjob to clean up the upload directory. Ensure that the max upload file
meillo@0: size of PHP is large enough.
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meillo@0: More or less helpful information sources on the PDF conversion:
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: 	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6002261/pdf-to-tiff-imagemagick-problem
meillo@0: 	http://www.asmail.be/msg0055376363.html
meillo@0: 	http://kvz.io/blog/2007/11/28/php-tiff2pdf/
meillo@0: 	http://phpdave.wordpress.com/tag/php-pdf-to-tiff/
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meillo@0: 
meillo@0: 2013, markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
meillo@0: Written at KIT-Library, Karlsruhe.
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: This program is in the public domain. -- Dieses Programm hat nicht die
meillo@0: notwendige Schoepfungshoehe um urheberrechtlich geschuetzt zu sein. If
meillo@0: you though need a license, use it under the CC0 license.