#!/bin/bash ## Convert PDF to text and send to Readability ## Written Nov 6, 2013 ## Taha Ahmed pdffile=$1 # Filename without extension part jobname=${pdffile%.*} txtfile=$jobname.txt htmlfile=$jobname.html #outfile=$jobname # saves a HTML file in the current directory pdftotext -htmlmeta $pdffile # remove newlines from txtfile #tr -d "\n" < $txtfile > # copy the created txtfile to dropbox public folder # and rename it to *.HTML cp $htmlfile /home/taha/Dropbox/Public/$htmlfile # construct the corresponding Dropbox public URL htmlurl="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47462551/$htmlfile" # email url of htmlfile on dropbox to readability #mail -s "dropbox2readability" chepec+simms@inbox.readability.com <<< $txturl mail -t "chepec+simms@inbox.readability.com" -s "dropbox2readability" <<< $htmlurl