Jason Filley – SnakeLegs

Here’s a quick perl script I used to migrate Excalibur EFS 3.7 filerooms to Adobe Acrobat PDF’s. Keywords: excalibur, EFS, efsbatch.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# This is a plodding, quick script to migrate Excalibur EFS
# filerooms (my version at 3.7) to Adobe Acrobat PDF’s. Since
# EFS stores the images in .tiff files, it’s rather easy.
#
# Use efsbatch to export a list of the contents of your fileroom
# (see pg. 6-23 in the Technical Reference).
#
# Create a file “bob.whatever” with contents “DETAILS f:”.
# Then cd to the fileroom (e.g. /image/users/africa_fileroom) and
# run ‘efsbatch bob.whatever >> africa_fileroom.details’.
#
# I copied the fileroom dirs off to a separate machine, hence the
# different paths.  Play around with your setup. This should get
# you close.
#
# requires libtiff for tiffcp and tiff2pdf
# http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/

use warnings;
#use strict;
use File::Basename;
use File::Path;

$basepath=’/pickup/EFS/’;
$destpath=’/pickup/EFS/processed/’;
while ( ) {
  chop $_;
     if (/^Document/) {
    @docinfo = split(/ /, $_, 3);
    #zero out @sourcetiffs
     $#sourcetiffs = -1;

     #print “$_\n”;

     $numofpages = $docinfo[1];
   #print “$numofpages\n”;

     $fullpathname = $docinfo[2];
     #print “$fullpathname\n”;

      $fullpathname = substr($fullpathname, 2);
      #print “$fullpathname\n”;

      $dirname = dirname($fullpathname);
      #print “$dirname\n”;

      $relativepathname = substr($dirname, 1);
      #print “$relativepathname\n”;

       $documentname = basename($fullpathname);
       #print “$documentname\n”;

     #print “\n”;

  }
 if (/^\d.*\/image\/users\/.*\.tif$/) {

    #print $_;
    #print “\n”;

   @imageinfo = split(/ /, $_, 3);

    $tiffdocnum = $imageinfo[0];
    #print “$tiffdocnum\n”;

    $tiffpath = $imageinfo[2];
    #print “$tiffpath\n”;

    $reltiffpath = substr($tiffpath, 13);
    #print “$reltiffpath\n”;

    $srctiffpath = $basepath . $reltiffpath;
    #print “srctiffpath = $srctiffpath\n”;

    push(@sourcetiffs, $srctiffpath);

    # If this is the last file in the document,
    # create the directory and call tiffcp to merge
    # them into one tiff. Then run tiff2pdf to create
   # the PDF.

  if ($tiffdocnum == $numofpages) {

  #Create the target directory
  $desttiffpath = $destpath . $relativepathname . “\/”;
  #print “mkpath($desttiffpath, 1, 0770)\n”;
  mkpath($desttiffpath, 1, 0770);
  #Call tiffcp on @sourcetiffs to final .tiff
  $cmdtiffcp = “tiffcp -c lzw @sourcetiffs \”$desttiffpath$documentname.tiff\”";
  #print “sourcetiffs = @sourcetiffs\n”;
  #print “$cmdtiffcp\n\n”;
  system(“$cmdtiffcp”);

  #Convert final .tiff to PDF
  $cmdtiff2pdf = “tiff2pdf -o \”$desttiffpath$documentname.pdf\” \”$desttiffpath$documentname.tiff\”";
  #print “$cmdtiff2pdf\n\n”;
  system(“$cmdtiff2pdf”);
  system(“rm -f \”$desttiffpath$documentname.tiff\”");

   }

  }

}