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    <p>I have a directory of images:</p> <pre><code>path/to/directory/ image01.jpg image02.jpg ... </code></pre> <p>and would like to convert it into a single PDF file:</p> <pre><code>path/to/directory.pdf </code></pre> <p>This is what I managed to code so far:</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash echo Directory $1 out=$(echo $1 | sed 's|/$|.pdf|') echo Output $out mkdir tmp for i in $(ls $1) do # MAC hates sed with "I" (ignore case) - thanks SO for the perl solution! # I want to match "jpg, JPG, Jpg, ..." echo $1$i $(echo "tmp/$i" | perl -C -e 'use utf8;' -pe 's/jpg$/pdf/i') convert $1$i $(echo "tmp/$i" | perl -C -e 'use utf8;' -pe 's/jpg$/pdf/i') done pdftk tmp/*.pdf cat output $out rm -rf tmp </code></pre> <p>So the idea was to convert each image into a pdf file with imagemagick, and use pdftk to merge it into a single file. Thanks to the naming of the files I don't have to bother about the ordering.</p> <p>Since I'm a newbie to this I'm sure there are many refinements one can do:</p> <ul> <li>only iterate over image-files in the directory (in case there is some Readme.txt,...)</li> <li>including the extensions png, jpeg, ...</li> <li>using the trailing "/" is not elegant I admint</li> <li>etc.</li> </ul> <p>Currently my main problem is, however, that there are cases where my directories and image files contain spaces in their names. The for-loop then iterates over sub-strings of the filename and I imagine that the line with convert will also fail. I have tried out some things but haven't succeeded so far and hope someone will be able to help me here. If anyone has ideas to address the issues I listed above as well I would be very glad to hear them too. </p>
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