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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script to Dynamically Extract file content based on Parameters from a pdf file Post 302804017 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 8th of May 2013 12:38:41 AM
Old 05-08-2013
If you have python on your system you could try the PyPDF2 Library


Assumption is last page of invoice contains some text you can match to like "Total Due:"

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from PyPDF2.pdf import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
import sys

filenum = 1
Pageadded = False

output_pdf = PdfFileWriter()
input_pdf = PdfFileReader(open(sys.argv[1], "rb"))

for i in range(0, input_pdf.getNumPages()):
    Pageadded = True
    output_pdf.addPage(input_pdf.getPage(i))

    if input_pdf.getPage(i).extractText().find("Total Due:") != -1:
        outputStream = file("Cust_" + str(filenum) + ".pdf", "wb")
        output_pdf.write(outputStream)
        filenum = filenum + 1
        output_pdf = PdfFileWriter()
        Pageadded = False
if Pageadded:
    outputStream = file("Cust_" + str(filenum) + ".pdf", "wb")
    output_pdf.write(outputStream)

Note: indentation is a part of the python syntax so ensure you keep the indent levels correct. Call the script like this:

Code:
$ ./split_invoice.py Invoice_file.pdf

 

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       -  evince(1)

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