[Decrypt PDFs] #automation

decrypt_pdfs.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Check if qpdf is installed
if ! command -v qpdf >/dev/null; then
    echo "qpdf not found. Please install qpdf and try again."
    exit 1
fi

# Check if enough arguments are supplied
if [ "$#" -lt 3 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 password input_folder output_folder"
    exit 1
fi

# Get the password, input folder, and output folder
password="$1"
input_folder="$2"
output_folder="$3"

# Create the output folder if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p "$output_folder"

# Decrypt each PDF file in the input folder
for file in "$input_folder"/*.pdf; do
    file_name=$(basename "$file")
    output_file="$output_folder/${file_name%.pdf}_unlocked.pdf"
    qpdf --password="$password" --decrypt "$file" "$output_file"
    echo "Processed $file_name"
done

echo "All files have been processed."