from pymarc import *
import sys

def marc8_to_utf( marc8string ):
  converter = MARC8_to_Unicode()
  converted = converter.translate(marc8string)
  converted = unicodedata.normalize('NFC', converted)
  return converted

reader = MARCReader(file(sys.argv[1]))
titlefile = open(sys.argv[2], 'w')
for record in reader:
  marc8title = record['245'].value()
  utf8title = marc8_to_utf(marc8title)
  titlefile.write(utf8title.encode("utf8"))
  titlefile.write('\n')
titlefile.close()