go-pardocs

Tools to process published Parliament documents (PDFs only) into more accessible form. Spiritual successor of https://github.com/leowmjw/parliamentMY-QA-blast

Assumes:

• OSX dev environment
• Go v1.13 and above (uses go mod)
• Release for Linux, Windows, OSX available as cross-compile

Usage

Planning

$ ./go-pardocs plan -session <name> -type <L|BL> [-force] [-dir <workspace>] <sourcePDFPath>
Example:
	./go-pardocs plan -session par14sesi1 -type L ./raw/Lisan/JDR12032019.pdf
	./go-pardocs plan -session par13sesi3 -type L ./raw/Lisan/JWP DR 161018.pdf
	./go-pardocs plan -session par12sesi1 -type L ./raw/Lisan/20140327__DR_JawabLisan_clean.pdf

Splitting

$ ./go-pardocs split -session par14sesi1 -type BL <file>

Output

$ ls ./splitout
...                                 par14sesi1-soalan-BukanLisan-3.pdf
README.md                           par14sesi1-soalan-BukanLisan-4.pdf
par14sesi1-soalan-BukanLisan-1.pdf  par14sesi1-soalan-BukanLisan-5.pdf
par14sesi1-soalan-BukanLisan-2.pdf  par14sesi1-soalan-BukanLisan-6.pdf
...

Splitting with optional date prefix

Example: Parlimen 14 Sesi 2 Mesyuarat 3; 04 Disember 2019

Run the plan

$ ./go-pardocs plan -session 20191204-par14sesi2mesy3 -type L ./raw/Lisan/JDR04122019.pdf

Split with the date prefix in session parameter

$ ./go-pardocs split -session 20191204-par14sesi2mesy3 -type L ./raw/Lisan/JDR04122019.pdf

Output

$ ls ./splitout
20191204-par14sesi2mesy3-soalan-Lisan-1.pdf
20191204-par14sesi2mesy3-soalan-Lisan-10.pdf
20191204-par14sesi2mesy3-soalan-Lisan-11.pdf
20191204-par14sesi2mesy3-soalan-Lisan-12.pdf
20191204-par14sesi2mesy3-soalan-Lisan-13.pdf
...
20191204-par14sesi2mesy3-soalan-Lisan-6.pdf
20191204-par14sesi2mesy3-soalan-Lisan-7.pdf
20191204-par14sesi2mesy3-soalan-Lisan-8.pdf
20191204-par14sesi2mesy3-soalan-Lisan-9.pdf

IMPORTANT!

The API for split seems to be broken for certain malformed PDF [ most older ones from Parliamant ;P ].

Issue for the above is tracked at: pdfcpu/pdfcpu#87

The program will try to use the API but if it fails; the fall-back is to using the pdfcpu command directly.

2019/06/16 21:01:09 Unexpected error split via API:  dict=pagesDict entry=Tabs: unsupported in version 1.4
This file could be PDF/A compliant but pdfcpu only supports versions <= PDF V1.7

2019/06/16 21:01:09 Falling back to split using pdfcpu CLI ..

pdfcpu is assumed to be in the default bin folder of Golang installation ~/go/bin/pdfcpu AND pdfcpu version 0.1.23 or above

HOWTO Split file to smaller pieces for analysis / development

Assumes: pdfcpu has been downloaded

EXAMPLE: Split to 15 pages chunk

$ ~/go/bin/pdfcpu split  \ 
        ~/Downloads/Pertanyaan\ Jawapan\ Bukan\ Lisan\ 22019.pdf \
        raw/BukanLisan/split 15