BunTool

Automatically make court bundles in seconds. Check out the main instance: buntool.co.uk

Takes input PDF files; generates index data; outputs a merged PDF with index, hyperlinks, bookmarks and page numbers according to your chosen settings.

Output Bundles comply with the requirements of the English Courts, and are also useful for a range of other applications.

Usage and installation

This is configured for self-hosting, which is what these isntructions are for.

# 1. Create the virtual environment (a hidden folder named .venv)
python3 -m venv .venv

# 2. Activate the virtual environment
source .venv/bin/activate

# 3. Install the required packages
pip install -e .

Ready to bake

Now you can start the server:

buntool

Then visit http://127.0.0.1:7001 in your browser.

Packaging as Nuitka compiled wheel for 15% speed up

In our local tests we noticed a 15% speed up when compiling the wheel with Nuitka so we decided to include instructions on how to integrate Nuitka in your workflow.

Building the compiled wheel

In the project folder:

# 1. Create the virtual environment (a hidden folder named .venv)
python3 -m venv .venv

# 2. Activate the virtual environment
source .venv/bin/activate

# 3. Install the required packages
pip install .[build]

# 4. Build wheel
python -m build

This will create a .whl file within the dist folder.

Install wheel in a new venv and run

To make sure you run on an isolated from build environment, deactivate the previous venv and create a new sibling folder with a new venv:

deactivate
cd ..
mkdir new-folder && cd new-folder

# 1. Create the virtual environment (a hidden folder named .venv)
python3 -m venv .venv

# 2. Activate the virtual environment
source .venv/bin/activate

# 3. Install wheel where * is the name of the created wheel
pip install ../buntool/dist/*.whl

# 4. Run application
buntool

Copyright and License

Copyright © Tristan Sherliker and contributors to BunTool

Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0.