Given a set of PDF files among which some pages are color and the remaining are black & white, is there any program to find out among the given pages which are color and whi
Newer versions of Ghostscript (version 9.05 and later) include a "device" called inkcov. It calculates the ink coverage of each page (not for each image) in Cyan (C), Magenta (M), Yellow (Y) and Black (K) values, where 0.00000 means 0%, and 1.00000 means 100% (see Detecting all pages which contain color).
For example:
$ gs -q -o - -sDEVICE=inkcov file.pdf
0.11264 0.11605 0.11605 0.09364 CMYK OK
0.11260 0.11601 0.11601 0.09360 CMYK OK
If the CMY values are not 0 then the page is color.
To just output the pages that contain colors use this handy oneliner:
$ gs -o - -sDEVICE=inkcov file.pdf |tail -n +4 |sed '/^Page*/N;s/\n//'|sed -E '/Page [0-9]+ 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 / d'
The script from Martin Scharrer is great. It contains a minor bug: It counts two pages which contain color and are directly consecutive twice. I fixed that. In addition the script now counts the pages and lists the grayscale pages for double-paged printing. Also it prints the pages comma separated, so the output can directly be used for printing from a PDF viewer. I've added the code, but you can download it here, too.
Cheers, timeshift
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "USAGE: This script needs exactly one paramter: the path to the PDF"
kill -SIGINT $$
fi
FILE=$1
PAGES=$(pdfinfo ${FILE} | grep 'Pages:' | sed 's/Pages:\s*//')
GRAYPAGES=""
COLORPAGES=""
DOUBLECOLORPAGES=""
DOUBLEGRAYPAGES=""
OLDGP=""
DOUBLEPAGE=0
DPGC=0
DPCC=0
SPGC=0
SPCC=0
echo "Pages: $PAGES"
N=1
while (test "$N" -le "$PAGES")
do
COLORSPACE=$( identify -format "%[colorspace]" "$FILE[$((N-1))]" )
echo "$N: $COLORSPACE"
if [[ $DOUBLEPAGE -eq -1 ]]
then
DOUBLEGRAYPAGES="$OLDGP"
DPGC=$((DPGC-1))
DOUBLEPAGE=0
fi
if [[ $COLORSPACE == "Gray" ]]
then
GRAYPAGES="$GRAYPAGES,$N"
SPGC=$((SPGC+1))
if [[ $DOUBLEPAGE -eq 0 ]]
then
OLDGP="$DOUBLEGRAYPAGES"
DOUBLEGRAYPAGES="$DOUBLEGRAYPAGES,$N"
DPGC=$((DPGC+1))
else
DOUBLEPAGE=0
fi
else
COLORPAGES="$COLORPAGES,$N"
SPCC=$((SPCC+1))
# For double sided documents also list the page on the other side of the sheet:
if [[ $((N%2)) -eq 1 ]]
then
DOUBLECOLORPAGES="$DOUBLECOLORPAGES,$N,$((N+1))"
DOUBLEPAGE=$((N+1))
DPCC=$((DPCC+2))
#N=$((N+1))
else
if [[ $DOUBLEPAGE -eq 0 ]]
then
DOUBLECOLORPAGES="$DOUBLECOLORPAGES,$((N-1)),$N"
DPCC=$((DPCC+2))
DOUBLEPAGE=-1
elif [[ $DOUBLEPAGE -gt 0 ]]
then
DOUBLEPAGE=0
fi
fi
fi
N=$((N+1))
done
echo " "
echo "Double-paged printing:"
echo " Color($DPCC): ${DOUBLECOLORPAGES:1:${#DOUBLECOLORPAGES}-1}"
echo " Gray($DPGC): ${DOUBLEGRAYPAGES:1:${#DOUBLEGRAYPAGES}-1}"
echo " "
echo "Single-paged printing:"
echo " Color($SPCC): ${COLORPAGES:1:${#COLORPAGES}-1}"
echo " Gray($SPGC): ${GRAYPAGES:1:${#GRAYPAGES}-1}"
#pdftk $FILE cat $COLORPAGES output color_${FILE}.pdf
It is possible to use the Image Magick tool identify
. If used on PDF pages it converts the page first to a raster image. If the page contained color can be tested using the -format "%[colorspace]"
option, which for my PDF printed either Gray
or RGB
. IMHO identify
(or what ever tool it uses in the background; Ghostscript?) does choose the colorspace depending on the presents of color.
An example is:
identify -format "%[colorspace]" $FILE.pdf[$PAGE]
where PAGE is the page starting from 0, not 1. If the page selection is not used all pages will be collapsed to one, which is not what you want.
I wrote the following BASH script which uses pdfinfo
to get the number of pages and then loops over them. Outputting the pages which are in color. I also added a feature for double sided document where you might need a non-colored backside page as well.
Using the outputted space separated list the colored PDF pages can be extracted using pdftk
:
pdftk $FILE cat $PAGELIST output color_${FILE}.pdf
#!/bin/bash
FILE=$1
PAGES=$(pdfinfo ${FILE} | grep 'Pages:' | sed 's/Pages:\s*//')
GRAYPAGES=""
COLORPAGES=""
DOUBLECOLORPAGES=""
echo "Pages: $PAGES"
N=1
while (test "$N" -le "$PAGES")
do
COLORSPACE=$( identify -format "%[colorspace]" "$FILE[$((N-1))]" )
echo "$N: $COLORSPACE"
if [[ $COLORSPACE == "Gray" ]]
then
GRAYPAGES="$GRAYPAGES $N"
else
COLORPAGES="$COLORPAGES $N"
# For double sided documents also list the page on the other side of the sheet:
if [[ $((N%2)) -eq 1 ]]
then
DOUBLECOLORPAGES="$DOUBLECOLORPAGES $N $((N+1))"
#N=$((N+1))
else
DOUBLECOLORPAGES="$DOUBLECOLORPAGES $((N-1)) $N"
fi
fi
N=$((N+1))
done
echo $DOUBLECOLORPAGES
echo $COLORPAGES
echo $GRAYPAGES
#pdftk $FILE cat $COLORPAGES output color_${FILE}.pdf
Here is the ghostscript solution for Windows, which requires grep from GnuWin (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm):
Monochrome (Black and White) pages:
gswin64c -q -o - -sDEVICE=inkcov DOCUMENT.pdf | grep "^ 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000" | find /c /v ""
Color pages:
gswin64c -q -o - -sDEVICE=inkcov DOCUMENT.pdf | grep -v "^ 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000" | find /c /v ""
Total pages (you get this one easier from any pdf reader):
gswin64c -q -o - -sDEVICE=inkcov DOCUMENT.pdf | find /c /v ""
ImageMagick has some built-in methods for image comparison.
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compare/#type_general
There are some Perl APIs for ImageMagick, so maybe if you cleverly combine these with a PDF to Image converter you can find a way to do your black & white test.
This is one of the most interesting questions I've seen! I agree with some of the other posts that rendering to a bitmap and then analyzing the bitmap will be the most reliable solution. For simple PDFs, here's a faster but less complete approach.
My solution below does #1 and half of #2. The other half of #2 would be to follow up with user-defined color, which involves looking up the /ColorSpace entries in the page and decoding them -- contact me offline if this is interesting to you, as it's very doable but not in 5 minutes.
First the main program:
use CAM::PDF;
my $infile = shift;
my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($infile);
PAGE:
for my $p (1 .. $pdf->numPages) {
my $tree = $pdf->getPageContentTree($p);
if (!$tree) {
print "Failed to parse page $p\n";
next PAGE;
}
my $colors = $tree->traverse('My::Renderer::FindColors')->{colors};
my $uncertain = 0;
for my $color (@{$colors}) {
my ($name, @rest) = @{$color};
if ($name eq 'g') {
} elsif ($name eq 'rgb') {
my ($r, $g, $b) = @rest;
if ($r != $g || $r != $b) {
print "Page $p is color\n";
next PAGE;
}
} elsif ($name eq 'cmyk') {
my ($c, $m, $y, $k) = @rest;
if ($c != 0 || $m != 0 || $y != 0) {
print "Page $p is color\n";
next PAGE;
}
} else {
$uncertain = $name;
}
}
if ($uncertain) {
print "Page $p has user-defined color ($uncertain), needs more investigation\n";
} else {
print "Page $p is grayscale\n";
}
}
And then here's the helper renderer that handles color directives on each page:
package My::Renderer::FindColors;
sub new {
my $pkg = shift;
return bless { colors => [] }, $pkg;
}
sub clone {
my $self = shift;
my $pkg = ref $self;
return bless { colors => $self->{colors}, cs => $self->{cs}, CS => $self->{CS} }, $pkg;
}
sub rg {
my ($self, $r, $g, $b) = @_;
push @{$self->{colors}}, ['rgb', $r, $g, $b];
}
sub g {
my ($self, $gray) = @_;
push @{$self->{colors}}, ['rgb', $gray, $gray, $gray];
}
sub k {
my ($self, $c, $m, $y, $k) = @_;
push @{$self->{colors}}, ['cmyk', $c, $m, $y, $k];
}
sub cs {
my ($self, $name) = @_;
$self->{cs} = $name;
}
sub cs {
my ($self, $name) = @_;
$self->{CS} = $name;
}
sub _sc {
my ($self, $cs, @rest) = @_;
return if !$cs; # syntax error
if ($cs eq 'DeviceRGB') { $self->rg(@rest); }
elsif ($cs eq 'DeviceGray') { $self->g(@rest); }
elsif ($cs eq 'DeviceCMYK') { $self->k(@rest); }
else { push @{$self->{colors}}, [$cs, @rest]; }
}
sub sc {
my ($self, @rest) = @_;
$self->_sc($self->{cs}, @rest);
}
sub SC {
my ($self, @rest) = @_;
$self->_sc($self->{CS}, @rest);
}
sub scn { sc(@_); }
sub SCN { SC(@_); }
sub RG { rg(@_); }
sub G { g(@_); }
sub K { k(@_); }