verify_pdf.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
# set -x

################################################################################
# Verify integrity of PDFs, processing directorys with GNU Parallel
#
# Usage:
#   bash verify_pdf.sh [-i] [-t] [-q] file_or_directory
#
# Arguments:
#   -i or --info: check pdf with `pdfinfo`, general fast check
#   -t or --text: check pdf with `pdftotext`, tries to extract text for
#                 each page
#   -q or --qpdf: check pdf with `qpdf --check` and `qpdf --is-encrypted`,
#                 detects, e.g., locked (password protected) PDFs
#
#   NB: -it is not working, use -i -t
#
# Please report issues at https://github.com/jfilter/pdf-scripts/issues
#
# GPLv3, Copyright (c) 2020 Johannes Filter
################################################################################

# parse arguments
# h/t https://stackoverflow.com/a/33826763/4028896
do_info=0 && do_text=0 && do_qpdf=0

# skip over positional argument of the file(s), thus -gt 1
while [[ "$#" -gt 1 ]]; do
  case $1 in
  -i | --info) do_info=1 ;;
  -t | --text) do_text=1 ;;
  -q | --qpdf) do_qpdf=1 ;;
  *)
    echo "Unknown parameter passed: $1"
    exit 1
    ;;
  esac
  shift
done

# default: enable all
if (((do_info + do_text + do_qpdf) == 0)); then
  do_info=1 && do_text=1 && do_qpdf=1
fi

command_exists() {
  if ! [ -x $($(command -v $1 &>/dev/null)) ]; then
    echo $(error: $1 is not installed.) >&2
    exit 1
  fi
}

check_pdfinfo() {
  if ! pdfinfo "$1" &>/dev/null; then
    echo "$1" is broken, pdfinfo
  fi
}

# send text to stdout
check_pdftotext() {
  if ! pdftotext "$1" - &>/dev/null; then
    echo "$1" is broken, pdftotext
  fi
}

# todo: better error code handling, code 3 is just warning
check_qpdf() {
  qpdf --check "$1" &>/dev/null
  # echo $?
  if (($? == 2)) || qpdf --is-encrypted $1 &>/dev/null; then
    echo "$1" is broken, qpd
  fi
}

echo "-----------------------"
echo "checking PDFs with..."
((do_info == 1)) && echo "pdfinfo" && command_exists pdfinfo
((do_text == 1)) && echo "pdftotext" && command_exists pdftotext
((do_qpdf == 1)) && echo "qpdf" && command_exists qpdf
echo "-----------------------"

# $1 is the file and the following arguments the options
check() {
  (($2 == 1)) && check_pdfinfo $1
  (($3 == 1)) && check_pdftotext $1
  (($4 == 1)) && check_qpdf $1
}

if [[ $1 == /* ]]; then
  input=$1
else
  input=$PWD/$1
fi

if [[ -d $input ]]; then
  # directory of PDFs, need to create tmp file to store all args
  command_exists parallel &&
    export -f check && export -f check_pdfinfo && export -f check_pdftotext &&
    export -f check_qpdf &&
    ALL_PDFS=$(mktemp) &&
    for f in "$input"/*.pdf; do echo $f >>$ALL_PDFS; done &&
    parallel --bar check :::: "${ALL_PDFS}" ::: $do_info ::: $do_text ::: $do_qpdf
elif [[ -f $input ]]; then
  # single pdf
  check "$input" $do_info $do_text $do_qpdf
else
  echo "error: please provide some valid input file(s)"
  exit 1
fi