cis_baseline_csv

Transform CIS security baselines into CSV files with all controls and titles.

requirements

Install pdfminer for it's CLI tool pdf2txt.py

usage

first extract readable text from the first 50 pages
$ pdf2txt.py .\CIS_Red_Hat8.pdf -m 50 -t text -o CIS_Red_Hat8.pdf_extract.txt CIS_Red_Hat8.pdf

then use
$ python3 cis_to_csv.py .\CIS_benchmarks\CIS_Red_Hat8.pdf_extract.txt

bulk example

Powershell

Get-ChildItem '..\CIS benchmarks\' -Filter *.pdf_extract.txt | ForEach-Object {
  python3 cis_to_csv.py ('..\CIS_benchmarks\' + $_)
}

Bourne shell

for f in ./CIS_benchmarks/*_extract.txt; do
  python3 cis_to_csv.py $f
done