Automator

Merge PDFs
See history for an older, less useful version of this.


 * 1) Open Automator.
 * 2) Create a new Service workflow.
 * 3) Set to: "Service receives selected PDF Files in Finder.app"
 * 4) Add the following items, in this specific order:
 * 5) Run Shell Script (more below)
 * 6) Display Notification (Merge Complete; Your PDFs have been merged.)
 * 7) Save as "Merge PDFs".

The shell script:

To use:


 * Select multiple PDFs.
 * Option-click.
 * Select "Merge PDFs".

Extract text from PDFs
Before you begin, run this:


 * 1) Open Automator.
 * 2) Create a new Service workflow.
 * 3) Set to: "Service receives selected PDF Files in Finder.app"
 * 4) Add the following items, in this specific order:
 * 5) Run Shell Script (more below)
 * 6) Display Notification (Extraction Complete; Text has been extracted from your PDFs.)
 * 7) Save as "OCR PDFs".

The shell script:

To use:


 * Select a PDF, or multiple PDFs.
 * Option-click.
 * Select "Extract text from PDF(s)".