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Emacs-assisted PDF document filing
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combining two (or more) PDFs in paperless? #13

Open hummuscience opened 6 years ago

hummuscience commented 6 years ago

I am trying out paperless and like the simple way it works, thank you :)

I was wondering if there is a way to combine two scans into one in paperless and then rename/file it.

I was looking for the option in PDF-Tools but couldn't find anything. Any idea?

atgreen commented 6 years ago

Thanks!

I like your idea. On my Fedora box, poppler-utils provides the pdfunite command for merging PDF documents. Do you have any opinion on the workflow?

hummuscience commented 6 years ago

I just saw that poppler can also be installed on mac vie Homebrew so that should also work.

Worflow wise I think something like this would be nice: 1) Inspect PDFs with [SPC] first 2) Use the numbers to mark first [1], second[2], third, 4th page (etc) in the paperless buffer 3) Have a command to merge the ones marked

Then you would have to do that for every combination of PDFs you want to merge and repeat it for the next one etc. A more complex workflow is not needed for now, I guess

What do you think?