Converts multiple SVGs to a single PDF and applies OCR

svgs2pdf.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Requires rsvg-convert, pdfunite and ocrmypdf

echo "This script will convert all *.svg files in the current directory to *.pdf files and merge them into a single PDF file called all.pdf and then apply OCR to create all_ocr.pdf. Existing files with the same names will be overwritten."
read -p "Do you want to proceed? [Y/n] " -n 1 -r
echo
if [[ $REPLY =~ ^([Yy]| ) ]] || [[ -z $REPLY ]]; then
	# Convert all svg files to pdf files
	for i in *.svg; do
		rsvg-convert -f pdf -o ${i%.*}.pdf $i
	done

	# merge all pdf files into all.pdf
	pdfunite *.pdf all.pdf

	# apply ocr, export as all_ocr.pdf
	ocrmypdf all.pdf all_ocr.pdf
fi