<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'd like to build a simple application to:</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1. extract images from one or more pdf file/files converting them into tiff/jpg images;</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2. autocrop them (to remove a white margin), then split them, since images are two-pages scans that need to be splitted into single-page images;</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
3a . load the resulting images into a zip file or</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3b. wrap them again into a pdf file with a lossless compression. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Presently I'm doing the job using a local routine into my PC, and I use nconvert for step 1, and python (with PIL) for steps 2-3a.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I better would like to to this job into Labs; the best being, to addo routines to grab files from an URL and to load them into Internet Archive. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Just to avoid "rediscovering the wheel", is someone doing something similar into Labs? </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If the wheel has to be built ;-) , which tools have I to (painfully) study and test?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Can I install nconvert for linux into my account for personal use? </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Alex (from it.wikisource)</div></div>