Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Automatically created PDF thumbnails

This is a bash script that creates an ultra-simple web page that previews PDFs. It uses Imagemagick to create the thumbnails.


#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo "<html><body>" > index.html
echo "<h1>PDF List</h1>" >> index.html
for myfile in *.PDF
do
    basename="`basename $myfile .PDF`"
    #echo $basename
    convert -antialias -colorspace RGB -scale 200x200 $myfile[0] $basename.jpg
    echo "<a href="'$myfile'"><img src="'$basename.jpg'" /></a>" >> index.html
    echo " " >> index.html
done

echo "</body></html>" >> index.html
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