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title = "Convert All PDFs"
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description = "Convert all PDF files using OcrMyPdf."
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# convert-all-pdf.sh
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With version 0.9.0 there was support added for another external tool,
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[OCRMyPdf](https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF), that can convert
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PDF files such that they contain the OCR-ed text layer. This tool is
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optional and can be disabled.
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In order to convert all previously processed files with this tool,
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there is an
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[endpoint](/openapi/docspell-openapi.html#api-Item-secItemConvertallpdfsPost)
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that submits a task to convert all PDF files not already converted for
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your collective.
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There is no UI part to trigger this route, so you need to use curl or
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the script `convert-all-pdfs.sh` in the `tools/` directory.
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2020-08-14 21:04:23 +00:00
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# Requirements
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It is a bash script that additionally needs
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[curl](https://curl.haxx.se/) and
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[jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/).
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# Usage
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```
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./convert-all-pdfs.sh [docspell-base-url]
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```
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For example, if docspell is at `http://localhost:7880`:
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```
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./convert-all-pdfs.sh http://localhost:7880
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```
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The script asks for your account name and password. It then logs in
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and triggers the said endpoint. After this you should see a few tasks
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running.
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There will be one task per file to convert. All these tasks are
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submitted with a low priority. So files uploaded through the webapp or
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a [source](@/docs/webapp/uploading.md#anonymous-upload) with a high
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priority, will be preferred as [configured in the job
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executor](@/docs/joex/_index.md#scheduler-config). This is to not
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disturb normal processing when many conversion tasks are being
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executed.
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