03-28-2011
Welcome pkabali! There are some very knowledgeable people on here.
I think what you are suggesting is good but I am not sure how well find reads .PDF metadata ? I am searching but there is probably a CLI app that can read and print a .PDF on the CLI.
I found another script that is kind of in the direction of what I am looking for, I am just asking the guy for permission to post it here.
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pdfseparate
pdfseparate(1) General Commands Manual pdfseparate(1)
NAME
pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
SYNOPSIS
pdfseparate [options] PDF-file PDF-page-pattern
DESCRIPTION
pdfseparate extract single pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF).
pdfseparate reads the PDF file PDF-file, extracts one or more pages, and writes one PDF file for each page to PDF-page-pattern, PDF-page-
pattern should contain %d. %d is replaced by the page number.
The PDF-file should not be encrypted.
OPTIONS
-f number
Specifies the first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1.
-l number
Specifies the last page to extract. If -l is omitted, extraction ends with the last page.
-v Print copyright and version information.
-h Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)
EXAMPLE
pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf
extracts all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it produces
sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf
AUTHOR
The pdfseparate software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC and copyright 2005-2011 The Poppler Developers -
http://poppler.freedesktop.org
SEE ALSO
pdfunite(1),
15 September 2011 pdfseparate(1)