AutoPDF

Convenient automatic PDF conversion and organisation (●'◡'●)

With the power of OfficeToPDF AutoPDF will convert any office related document to pdf. ╰(*°▽°*)╯ For a complete list, take a look at here. Works only on Windows for now.

Who needs it?

I myself wrote AutoPDF out of convenience for school. There are always teachers who upload their documents as docx and I am tired of opening Word, waiting till it's up and running and then export it to pdf, all while the lesson continues. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

If you have similar experiences or are able to imagine another use case than for school, work etc, then it is the right tool for you ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜).

How it works

Autonomous installation and updates of theOfficeToPDf binary (⌐■_■)
Creates a replica of the folder structure from a specified root directory
Opens automatically the Explorer.exe for you
Listens to files being copied / moved into the replica and converts them to pdf into the original folder structure
Windows notifications on important events

How to get it running

Execute main.py:

python main.py

When prompted, specify the root directory of your documents. That's the top most folder, that you want AutoPDF to convert PDF-files to. Do not put something like C:\ in that as all the subdirectories will be replicated and it might crash your computer.

Next specify the root directory for the temporary replica of the previously specified directory. It really can be anywhere as long as it is empty. If the folder does not exist AutoPDF will create it for you.

AutoPDF will save the configuration so you won't have to configure it on subsequent uses again!

Or import autopdf into your Python-script and you'll now what to do :)

Dependencies

Tested & developed on Python 3.9+.

requirements.txt:

watchdog
Send2Trash
requests
github3.py
packaging
win10toast_click

Help

If any problems occur, please don't be afraid to create an issue or contact me directly. Any pull request is welcome :)

Future

Much more sophisticated configuration paired with a simple graphical user interface would be amazing to have implemented. ╰(*°▽°*)╯

But packaging is more pressing as currently it is unlikely that someone without any Python knowledge is able to install and run AutoPDF ಠ_ಠ.

Build

Nuitka is used for building exe-Files.

Following command is used to build releases (inside root directory of this repository):

python -m nuitka --standalone --include-data-file=AutoPDF.ico=AutoPDF.ico --output-dir=build --prefer-source-code --windows-icon-from-ico=AutoPDF.ico --windows-product-name=AutoPDF --windows-file-version=0.0.1 --windows-company-name=TheSwampire --windows-file -description="Automatic PDF Conversion & Organization Tool" --windows-product-name=AutoPDF main.py

This will generate a folder containing AutoPDF.exe.

If you prefer a single file add --onefile, although in onefile-mode configuration won't be saved and OfficeToPDF.exe will be downloaded every time.

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