getpdftitle extracts the title from pdf files. The extracted title is redirected to stdout.
When an explicit file name is not specified, the title from all pdf documents in the current directory is extracted and output as a list.
For pdf files that do not contain title in metadata, the pdf is converted to txt file and the first non-empty line is extracted.
getpdftitle [-h] [-n] [-s] [filename [filename ...]]
positional arguments:
filename Extracts title from file.pdf. Extracts from all pdf files in the
current directory if a filename is not specified
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-n, --name Include filename in output
-s, --stat Show statistics of files parsed
sudo pip install pdfrw
sudo pip install argparse
Cibin Joseph ([email protected]).
MIT License See LICENSE for full text.