InterfolioPDFgen

Re-processes PDF zip downloads from Interfolio into different formats/bundles for the Committee. Currently there are two scripts: InterfolioPDFgen and ExtractSection. Both are outlined below.

InterfolioPDFgen:

Interfolio generates PDF bundles, but not in the format we want. We prefer to have cover-sheets for each applicant and re-bundle the PDFs into a zip file that contains sub-folders based on a keyword from the application (e.g., Carnegie Fellowship type).

ExtractSection:

This script extracts a particular section from each of the bundled PDFs downloaded from Interfolio. The idea is that one section (Research statement, e.g.) is anonymized, so should be extracted with no identifying information (only the user ID number).

Installation

Downdload to your local disk and use pip to install:

git clone https://github.com/obscode/InterfolioPDFgen

cd InterfolioPDFgen

pip install .

Usage

1. InterfolioPDFgen:

   1. Generate a PDF zip file of all the applicants you want to consider. Hint: login as position manager, go to position, select all applicants you want, click "Download" and "Zip file".
   2. Generate a report: login as position manager, to go "Reports", then filter by position name. Select all appropriate applicants (you can use other filters, like tags to do this autotmatically). Click "Download CSV".
   3. With the .zip and .csv files, run the PDF generator command:

   InterfolioPDFgen [-subkey subkey] [-outzip outzip] zipfile csvfile

   4. You will end up with a new .zip file that you can share.

2. ExtractSection

   1. Generate a PDF zip file of all the applicants you want to consider. Hint: login as position manager, go to position, select all applicants you want, click "Download" and "PDF file". Note this is sligtly different than the procedure for InterfolioPDFgen

   2. With the .zip file, run the extractor command:

      ExtractSection [-section #] [-secname SECNAME] [-exdir EXDIR] [-outdir OUTDIR] zipfile

      You can specify which section with the -section argument.

   3. The output sections will be saved as separate PDFs in the EXDIR folder (default Extracted) with filenames constructed as: SECNAME+ID.pdf where the ID is the applicant's Interfolio ID number.

   4. The original PDFs are saved in the OUTDIR folder (default Originals) and have filenames that are constructed of the applicant's first and last names and user ID.