Useful scripts

Scripts

Batch convert PDF to images in Ubuntu

First, install poppler-utils:

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

Then, move to the folder with the PDFs and execute:

for i in *.pdf; do pdftoppm -jpeg -r 300 "$i" "$i".jpg; done

Latex

Change the citation in ieeetran style to using dash for consecutive numbers

\usepackage[noadjust]{cite}
\renewcommand{\citepunct}{,\penalty\citepunctpenalty\,}
\renewcommand{\citedash}{--}% optionally