sanitized PDF

Quickly remove useless page from a huge pdf to get a readable pdf.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Example
• Contributing
• License

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Installation

git clone https://github.com/lucasmrdt/pdf-sanitizer
cd pdf-sanitizer
pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user

Usage

> ./pdf-sanitizer -h
usage: pdf-sanitizer [-h] [--title-ratio TITLE_RATIO]
                     [--content-ratio CONTENT_RATIO]
                     input_file output_file

Quickly remove useless page from a huge pdf to get a readable pdf

positional arguments:
  input_file            pdf file to be sanitized
  output_file           output sanitized pdf file name

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --title-ratio TITLE_RATIO
                        float between [0, 1] which is responsible of detecting
                        similar pages from title. The higher the ratio, the
                        more sensitive the sanitizer will be to any changes.
                        (default: 0.5)
  --content-ratio CONTENT_RATIO
                        float between [0, 1] which is responsible of detecting
                        similar pages from content. The higher the ratio, the
                        more sensitive the sanitizer will be to any changes.
                        (default: 0.8)

Example

> ./pdf-sanitizer my_huge_file.pdf my_readable_file.pdf
✅  Your file has been sanitized at my_readable_file.pdf

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Contributing

• Test on windows

Fell free to add more useful features, test it and report issues.

Support

Reach out to me at one of the following places!

• Website at lucas-marandat.fr
• LinkedIn at @lucasmrdt

License

• MIT license