Dear all,

I am trying to speed up my monthly archiving manual work by doing some automatic things. I am on Win8.1 64 bits home.

[0) I am using Synckback pro V8 to periodically move files (zip, rar, pdf, jpg and png) to a folder named "folder1".
When this Synckback pro profile has run, it can run a program (see image ) after the above files has been moved ("Run after profile").
I have discovered that I can run a .bat file which itself run several bat files (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1103994/how-to-run-multiple-bat-files-within-a-bat-file). ]

The main.bat file (or powershell?) should do the following :

1) delete duplicate files (MD5 checksum?)
(maybe using this powershell script https://n3wjack.net/2015/04/06/find-and-delete-duplicate-files-with-just-powershell/ ?)

2) unzip+unrar zip and rar files recursively (and once done delete the originals) of "folder1"
I thought using this old coding snack in ahk (RecurUnZip https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21424.msg192366#msg192366) but I need something automatic as my "folder1" path doesn't change.
(I have tried to adapt this powershell code with its comments alas unsucessfully https://superuser.com/questions/620056/recursively-unzip-files-where-they-reside-then-delete-the-archives/620077 !)

3) Reduce filepath to less than 260 characters (because some old programs can't open filepath that are long than 260 characters them later on). I manually use "Path Scanner" (http://www.parhelia-tools.com/products/pathscanner/Download.aspx)

4) Delete pdf files that are less than 2ko (because they are garbage) (I manually do this by using the freeware Everything and rank by size pdf files)

5) Run PDFTextChecker (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27311.msg255322#msg255322) on "folder1" by itself (it creates 2 files "!Not_Searchable.txt" and "!Searchable.txt"). Move the Not_Searchable pdf files in "folder2" and Searchable files in "folder3" (maybe using this old coding snack https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=35339.msg330784#msg330784 ?).


Then I use ABBYY Finereader 12 Corporate (not the last version which limits the number of page you can OCR per month !) which does an OCR automatically every day of "folder2" (be careful if you follow this process as it sometimes delete pdf files without warnings! So use the options to keep original files in a separated folder! Then at the end of the month I use manually the freeware "pathsync"(https://www.cockos.com/pathsync/)  to check differences and find those Finereader bugs!)

Many thanks in advance, ;)
Jity2

Dear all,

Main idea:
With one click on a button, the Web Extension (in Google Chrome or Firefox) silently saves the complete webpage as html and as a complete screenshot. Then it closes silently the tab. 

Process detailed :
1) Save the complete webpage like if I use the shortcut [CTRL+S] and rename the page as MONTH_DAY_MIN_SEC.html + its related folder ("htmlfilename_files" containing small images and etc....)
And all of that without prompting to enter filename and/or directory.

2) Save a complete screenshot of the page
This can be the equivalent of this extension : ScreenGrab "Save Complete page" :
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screengrab/fccdiabakoglkihagkjmaomipdeegbpk
(or something like this trick :  tip : [CTRL+I], then [CTRL+P], then typewrite capture Full screenshot page (see https://zapier.com/blog/full-page-screenshots-in-chrome/). In my tests this don't capture always all the page. But this may better than nothing!)

3) close the tab
Like when I use [CTRL+W]
(or a webextension like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/close-tab/hpmolahefgjbmidmoifolgpjkmhdmalf )


Optional :
- the button can be a standard icon or a bookmark button. It can change color when the saving process is running.
- it could be great if the saved content in saved in different folder each day (like: C:\NEWS\MONTH_DAY\MONTH_DAY_MIN_SEC.html + folder : C:\NEWS\MONTH_DAY\MONTH_DAY_MIN_SEC_files ...)
- the save html webpage can be replaced by "Save Page WE" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-page-we/dhhpefjklgkmgeafimnjhojgjamoafof
but it creates only one html file containing images a little like a .mht file. It works ok but probably not 100% on all pages.
- save a WARC file of the webpage ("WARC is now recognized by most national library systems as the standard to follow for web archival" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive). Example : WARCreate https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/warcreate/kenncghfghgolcbmckhiljgaabnpcaaa
- Force closing the tab if after 10 seconds not everything is saved ?
- maybe saving the screenshot first is faster than saving html first ?


Why am I asking for this ?
With the new Firefox Quantum released a few months ago, I am forced to change my habits. I save a lot of pages daily with one click on a bookmark. I am very happy with it. But I currently uses an outdated Firefox + Imacro addon versions in order to save webpages very fast. See https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/82ir3k/automatically_archiving_all_visited_web_pages/dvbnycf/ and https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23782.0
Previously I used a Firegesture shortcut to save webpages. This resulted in too many webpages saved for my taste! So now I prefer one click on a bookmark in the top middle of my screen !
But why saving the same webpage with different formats ?
Because I realized that sometimes the saved html page is not saved properly. Then when I tries many years later to open it with the current browser of the day, it does not display well because of some small inserted urls or something ! Too bad for me as there is a small missing image that either I have to dig in the related html folder to see or it was not saved for some reasons !
So being able to see a screenshot might not be a bad idea (and in the Windows Explorer I can also display screenshots as 'extra large icon'). ;)
Furthermore, now years later, I use locally Dtsearch for indexing all my contents and online Google Drive which does automatically OCR (even it is far from perfect!) on screenshots ! ;)


Many thanks in advance ;)

Dear all,

I need to merge many pdf files located into thousands of subfolders (several levels) full of pdf and other files. At the end, I need only one big pdf file per subfolder.


Example: “C:\Main_folder\” contains :

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_wgs\jshhd545.pdf

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_wgs\jshhd545.htm

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_wgs\ejkehe5485.pdf

…

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_ghdfdhd\jdjdhjd5545.pdf

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_ghdfdhd\jdsdjdh44.pdf

…

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_yuege255\uejgd56564\kdfhk5465.txt

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_yuege255\uejgd56564\kdfhk5465.pdf

…etc..

Desired results:

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_wgs\subfolder_wgs.pdf

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_ghdfdhd\subfolder_ghdfdhd.pdf

C:\Main_folder\subfolder_yuege255\uejgd56564\subfolder_yuege255.pdf  (or C:\Main_folder\subfolder_yuege255\uejgd56564\uejgd56564.pdf)

etc…



note: It would be great if results could be added into a new big folder (like C:\Main_folder2\ for instance).

I am on Win8.1 64bits.
Free or open source solutions preferred.
Thanks in advance ;)