Usage Documentation

This script merges all PDF files in a specified directory or the current working directory into a single PDF file. To use this script, follow the steps below:

Prerequisites

This script requires the following:

• Python 3
• PyPDF2 library

If the PyPDF2 library is not installed, run the following command to install it:

pip install PyPDF2

Arguments

The script accepts the following command-line arguments:

• -r, --root: Use the current working directory as the directory to search for PDF files. This is a mutually exclusive argument with -d.
• -d, --directory: Specify a directory to use as the directory to search for PDF files. This is a mutually exclusive argument with -r and requires a directory path to be provided as an argument.

Usage

To use this script, navigate to the directory where the Python file is saved and run the following command:

python merge_pdfs.py [-h] [-r | -d DIRECTORY]

If the -r argument is used, the script will use the current working directory as the directory to search for PDF files. If the -d argument is used, the script will use the directory path specified after -d as the directory to search for PDF files.

Once the script is executed, it will display a list of PDF files found in the specified directory and ask for confirmation to merge them. If confirmed, the script will create a new PDF file in the specified directory called MERGED_PDFS.pdf containing all the PDF files found.

Example

To merge all PDF files in the current working directory, run the following command:

python merge_pdfs.py -r

To merge all PDF files in a directory called path_to_pdfs located in the current working directory, run the following command:

python merge_pdfs.py -d path_to_pdfs