A linux bash file to convert a pdf file to a video in mp4 format. It scans the pages of the pdf file using a sliding window and save them as frames in a folder, then it creates a video from the frames.
./pdftomp4 --input 1column_paper.pdf
If you have a paper with two columns you can also use the following command. This way, the sliding window moves over columns:
./pdftomp4 --input 2column_paper.pdf --cols 2
It has many options that you can find by checking the code. Some of them are :
start=1 # start page (from)
end=1000 # end page (to)
win_height=400 # the height of sliding window (view port)
stride=32 # the number of pixels to slide
cut_left=100 # left margin to crop
cut_top=100 # top margin to crop
cols=0 # number of paper columns
You can set them in the code or pass them from the command line using this syntax --option option_value (for example --end 10)
- FFMpeg
- ImageMagick