README.md

Code to PDF

A command line python script that converts text files to pdfs; Specify the source directory, run the script, and voilà the output PDFs are created and saved to the specified output directory (by default its /output).

Why?

A util script, I made for converting the lab codes to pdf for record submission; The script was quickly put up for saving time. The original task was to convert about 75 students lab code, each student had about 20+ exercises. Doing this manually would've taken so much time, so I made this script to automate the process and has since saved a lot of time;

Usage

Start by installing the dependencies;

pip install -r requirements.txt

Now you can run the script by;

python main.py <root-folder> [-i [--include] ...] [-o [--output]]

root-folder: The source folder to search for the text files to convert; if found, this recursively finds all the file and converts them to PDFs

-i or --include [Optional]: Specifies the extensions to include when converting to PDF (space seperated). If a file is found to not have the specified extension it is ignored.

-o or --output [Optional]: Specifies the output location, by default its /output

For help, use

python main.py -h

Example

Assume the folder structure is;

Lab/
├─ cycle1/
│  ├─ ex1.c
│  ├─ ex2.c
│  ├─ idk.cpp
│  ├─ temp.html
├─ cycle2/
│  ├─ ex3.java
│  ├─ ex4.java

Execute;

python main.py Lab -o LabPdfs -i c java

This creates pdfs for all file with the extensions c and java in source folder Lab and outputs the result to LabPdfs

Lab/
├─ cycle1/
│  ├─ ex1.c
│  ├─ ex2.c
│  ├─ idk.cpp
│  ├─ temp.html
├─ cycle2/
│  ├─ ex3.java
│  ├─ ex4.java

LabPdfs/
├─ cycle1/
│  ├─ ex1.pdf
│  ├─ ex2.pdf
├─ cycle2/
│  ├─ ex3.pdf
│  ├─ ex4.pdf

Testing

For testing a sample; use

python main.py test_input -o test_output

Converts files in test_input to test_ouput