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A method to scrape PDFs for certain text (via Hazel) and save the results to a text file
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| Aaron says hi! |
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| output_file="output.txt" | |
| text_to_search_for="Aaron" | |
| line=$(pdftotext "$1" - | grep "$text_to_search_for") | |
| if [ "$line" != "" ]; then | |
| touch $output_file && echo $line >> $output_file | |
| fi |
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| This is a bunch of stuff | |
| This is a bunch of stuff | |
| This is a bunch of stuff | |
| This is a bunch of stuff | |
| Aaron was here! | |
| This is a bunch of stuff | |
| This is a bunch of stuff | |
| This is a bunch of stuff |
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| Aaron says hi! |
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The above Bash code will take an input file path (presumed to be a PDF, but that's up to Hazel), scan it for a certain string, and, if found, will append that line to a text file.
Base Hazel rule looks like this:
Conditions:
ExtensionispdfActions:
Run shell scriptembedded script(using thepdf-review.shscript above)