some ideas from Corona Virus "Stay at Home" order
Richard D. Williams
richard at appgrp.net
Mon Mar 23 12:40:03 PDT 2020
I have several Legal Process Service clients and they use it to confirm
a legal paper was properly served at a stated address.
Richard
On 3/23/2020 12:41 PM, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> On the topic of GPS coordinates: what use case can you think of for
> this? I've been aware of geotagging (an dother EXIF data) in photos
> and videos for years, and have written code to extract that data from
> the files, but have not come up with many use cases. Ideas?
>
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
>
>> Sometimes I think of some neat things I've done over the years and
>> just feel like sharing.
>>
>> Here are a few: (linux OS)
>>
>> Merge PDFs into a single new PDF:
>> /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
>> -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf
>>
>> Extract Pages from a PDF:
>> i.e. page 1-4
>> /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=1
>> -dLastPage=4 -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf
>>
>> Extract Pages from page # to end:
>> /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=2
>> -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf
>>
>> Get the numbers of pages in a PDF:
>> /usr/bin/pdfinfo file1.pdf | grep "Pages:" | sed s/"Pages:"//g | sed
>> s/" "//g
>> i.e.
>> 8
>>
>> Get the Lat/Long from a JPG image:
>> exiftool -n -gpslatitude -gpslongitude file2.JPG
>> i.e.
>> GPS Latitude : 31.4998652777778
>> GPS Longitude : -100.448014444444
>>
>> I hope someone finds this useful.
>>
>> Be safe out there,
>>
>> Richard D. Williams
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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