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Week 49 (December 2, 2019)

Read-mode for the web, html2text.py

input a link, convert a website to a text article; might be useful for qutebrowser

software recommendation - Renumber pages of a PDF - Ask Ubuntu
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I want to edit the metadata of a scanned PDF to assign custom page numbers to different pages. For example, what are now pages 1-3 I might want to call i, ii and iii, and what are pages 4-10, I wan...

10 Python Tips and Tricks You Should Learn Today - Towards Data Science

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LateX, PDF, Note-Taking, Academic Coursework Workflow for Linux and vim
Note: PDF Tools for linux/unix

PDF 'Meta-Data' and Formatting Tools:

  • pdftk - allows changing page order, extracting pages, combining pages (or image files) to one pdf
  • jPdf - similar features to pdftk; allows adding bookmars, renumbering pages, watermarks, attachments, encryptiong, signing, etc
  • ABBYY FineReader (win) - OCR and image editing
  • irfanview(win)/xnview(unix) - allows batch editing the extracted image files

Annotation:

  • Okular - the KDE pdf viewer, annotation works well and fast, dark mode/light mode, -needs many KDE dependencies installed
  • MasterPDF Editor - small, fast, many annotation features; -previous Okular annotations don't seem to show up? (don't know if incompatible)

Search:

  • rga - ripgrep through the fulltext of all manner of files (zip, tar, epub,..) including pdf
  • fast-p - extract and search through pdf fulltext with fzf