DocumentFiler

Automatic PDFtoText and refiling of scanned PDF documents

Given an input folder of PDF documents, process each of them and move 'matched' documents into a sub-folder of an output folder.

Dependencies

pdftotext is required to convert from searchable PDF documents into text for processing and categorising.

Usage

usage: DocumentFiler.py [-h] [--config CONFIG] [--p2t P2T] [--output OUTPUT]
                        input [input ...]

Automatic PDFtoText and refiling of scanned PDF documents

positional arguments:
input            An input folder of material to process

optional arguments:
-h, --help       show this help message and exit
--config CONFIG  The confguration file to use if there isn't one in the
                input
--p2t P2T        The location of pdttotext if not in the default path
--output OUTPUT  The output folder to use

Configuration

DocumentFiler can load a JSON document to provide user specific configuration options for potentially sensitive information such as a list of companies or addresses. This configuration file will be loaded from

• the current input folder if it exists,
• the configuration path given on the command line, or
• the same folder as the application.