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I've often wanted a bulk tool that takes the title or some other easy to find value from a pdf and renames the file to that.
by 6510 2y ago
I've often wanted a bulk tool that takes the title or some other easy to find value from a pdf and renames the file to that.
- voidUpdate 2y agoUnfortunately, PDFs are right buggers to work with and there often isn't an "easy to find value" for anything
- matthewshere 2y agoYou're absolutely right, PDFs can be incredibly tricky. That lack of a consistent, easily parsable structure for arbitrary data is the core challenge.
- 6510 2y agoI mean easy in the PDF sense. I have folders full of randomString.pdf and name(15).pdf but those that share a folder all have the same layout.
- matthewshere 2y agoAppreciate you sharing that requirement! The need for batch processing to pull out targeted data points from PDFs (rather than converting the whole document) is a valuable insight. While the current tool focuses on full conversion to Markdown, enhancing https://pdftomarkdown.pro/ https://pdftomarkdown.pro/ to handle specific data extraction tasks like yours is definitely something I'll consider carefully for the future roadmap. Thanks for highlighting it!