This is based on the Marisol project. A few tweaks were made to change the position and rotation of the text. These can be found in marisol.py.
Clone the repository and create a virtual environment with virtualenv -p python3.8 .venv. Any Python version above 3.5 should work. Install the required packages with pip install -r requirements.txt. You may need to install PyPDF2 and reportlab before installing requirements.txt.
user@desktop:~/bates_numbering$ python run_bates.py -h
usage: run_bates.py [-h] [--prefix PREFIX] [--x X] [--y Y] [--rotation ROTATION]
[--no-manual]
dirname output-dir
Change string prefix of Bates number
positional arguments:
dirname directory with the unstamped files
output-dir directory for stamped documents
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--prefix PREFIX string prefix for the Bates number
--x X horizontal position of text
--y Y vertical position of text
--rotation ROTATION rotation of the text
--no-manual whether to manually set the text position.True if called, false otherwise The default position of the text is at the bottom center of the page, where x is 300 and y is 30.
As x increases, the text moves to the right of the page. As y increases, the text moves to the top of the page.
Generate a few sample PDFs with
import os
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
os.makedirs('mydocs', exist_ok=True)
for i in range(3):
pdf = canvas.Canvas(f'mydocs/some_file{i}.pdf')
text = pdf.beginText(40, 680)
text.textLine('Hello there!')
pdf.drawText(text)
pdf.save()Then stamp the documents using python run_bates.py mydocs --prefix Important_
Run the GUI with python run_gui.py.
Install NSIS. It is recommended to install the latest version from the link because apt-get install only installs version 3.0.5. If the latest version doesn't work on Windows 10, try installing version 3.0.1. See this GitHub Issue for details. Run pynsist installer.cfg to create your own .exe. You can then distribute the resulting .exe file in the build directory. This has been tested on Windows 10 Home.
TBD