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A tool for renaming a batch of pdf files

Project description

MIT license, Xavier Olive 2017

The addressed use case comes the frustration caused by opening tons of pdf files (mainly scientific publications) in order to copy-paste the title and rename the file accordingly.

The proposed workflow goes as follow:

$ pdfrename *.pdf
Rename '/home/xo/Downloads/1606.04838.pdf' to '/home/xo/Downloads/Optimization Methods for Large-Scale Machine Learning.pdf'? [y/n/j/s/a] >
Choose among y(es)/n(o)/j(oin)/s(kip)/a(bort) > y
The script first searches the metadata, then parses each line of the first page of the file to suggest it as a file name.
Use j(oin) to merge the current suggestion with next line (for papers with a two-line title).

Installation

Latest release:

pip install pdfrename
Try pip install --user pdfrename if need be.
The executable will be installed in a directory with read/write access.
Check the directory (which depends on your Python installation) is in your PATH variable.
Try /usr/local/bin, $HOME/.local/bin, …

From source:

pip install git+https://github.com/xoolive/pdfrename

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