simple script to convert folder of pdfs to text in bash using pdftotext

convert_pdfs_to_text.sh

#!/bin/bash

CONVERT=pdftotext
OUTPUT_FOLDER="text"

CONVERT_FLAGS1=
CONVERT_FLAGS2=-layout
VARIANT_FOLDER1="${OUTPUT_FOLDER}/plain"
VARIANT_FOLDER2="${OUTPUT_FOLDER}/layout"

mkdir -p ${VARIANT_FOLDER1}
mkdir -p ${VARIANT_FOLDER2}

for fn in *.pdf
do
    basename=$(echo "$fn" | sed -r "s/\.pdf$//")
    echo "processing ${fn}..."
    FN_OUT1="${VARIANT_FOLDER1}/${basename}.txt"
    if [[ -f ${FN_OUT1} ]]; then
        echo "exists"
    else
        echo $CONVERT $CONVERT_FLAGS1 "$fn" ${FN_OUT1}
        $CONVERT $CONVERT_FLAGS1 "${fn}" "${FN_OUT1}"
    fi
    FN_OUT2="${VARIANT_FOLDER2}/${basename}.txt"
    if [[ -f ${FN_OUT2} ]]; then
        echo "exists"
    else
        echo $CONVERT $CONVERT_FLAGS2 "$fn" ${FN_OUT2}
        $CONVERT $CONVERT_FLAGS2 "${fn}" "${FN_OUT2}"
    fi

    echo "done."
done