PDF Splitter, Rotate and Crop for Kindle

(or any other eBook reader)

Description:

A PDF page splitter (based on http://stackoverflow.com/a/15741856/1301753), with rotation and cropping.

Before

After

Python (of course) has to be installed:** https://www.python.org/downloads/ Not python mandatory for GUI versions (See below, "UPDATE" )

Option 1: Graphical User Interface

Screenshots

Installation and use

• Download the files from the /pdf_kindle_gui folder.
• Open a terminal (Ubuntu: 'ctrl+alt+t'; Windows: 'Windows+R' and then write 'cmd', press 'enter'; Mac... applications, maybe?), go to the folder where you put the files and: python pdf_kindle_gui
• From there, it's pretty intuitive.

(There's also a one-file standalone executable release on /pdf_kindle_gui/dist, but it only works on linux, as far as I tested it.)

UPDATE: GUI standalone distributions

There are now working GUI standalone versions for Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

Mac: Get the +pdf_kindle_gui.app+ file from /pdf_kindle_gui/macos/macos/dist/.

Windows: Get +pdf_kindle_gui.exe+ file from /pdf_kindle_gui/dist_windows/.

Linux: Get +pdf_kindle_gui+ file from /pdf_kindle_gui/dist/.

Mac OS Screenshots (by Osk)

Option 2: Terminal

(Good for batch jobs).

• Download the files from the /pdf_kindle/ folder.
• Open a terminal (Ubuntu: 'ctrl+alt+t'; Windows: 'Windows+R' and then write 'cmd, press 'enter';Mac... Applications, maybe?), go to the folder where you put the files and choose one of the following options

USAGE:

python pdfkindle.py ORIGINAL.pdf

or

python pdfkindle.py ORIGINAL.pdf FINAL.pdf

or

python pdfkindle.py ORIGINAL.pdf rotateClockwiseINTEGER

or

python pdfkindle.py ORIGINAL.pdf FINAL.pdf rotateClockwiseINTEGER

(you can ommit the "python" if the file has execute permissions --i.e., "chmod +x pdfkindle")

Please remember the paths are relative, so if you have your script on "/home/myuser/", you'll need to execute this way:

python /home/myuser/pdfkindle.py ORIGINAL.pdf

or

python /home/myuser/pdfkindle.py /home/myuser/somepdfs/ORIGINAL.pdf

the output file will be saved on the current folder.

BATCH JOBS:

The following splits all the PDFs on the current dir. You can add to this command any of the options from above.

 for i in *.pdf; do python pdfkindle.py $i; done

For instance, if you want to rotate all the files 90º clockwise,

 for i in *.pdf; do python pdfkindle.py $i 90; done