A Python script to merge a large number of periodical PDFs into multi-issue volumes.
In addition to sys, re, and os, this script uses the following modules:
The script as written assumes that you have a directory containing multiple PDFs, each of which has some kind of volume number in the filename (such as a year). I wrote it with the following file structure in mind:
|--magazine-merge.py
| magazines
|--issue1feb2006.pdf
|--issue2march2006.pdf
|--...All that being said, the regex pattern for file titles, path, and naming conventions are all easily modified to suit your needs.
I had purchased 72 PDF issues of a magazine (The Gift of Stitching, or TGOSM) in PDF format and wanted to browse them more conveniently. I decided to merge them into PDFs by year.
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