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General Software Discussion / Re: rename pdf, word, etc files based on their text content

« on: December 11, 2011, 07:21 AM »

is there any tool that will rename files like pdf, word, etc based on their content text?

i have often thought that a commandline utility that could take a pdf file, grab its title, author, and date and rename it to some combination of those, would be EXTREMELY useful.

-mouser (December 10, 2011, 09:37 AM)

In the past I've written a little command line tool which sets the date of a PDF file to the one recorded in its metadata and it was a difficult task because there's not a standard. Every program which generates a PDF writes that data in it's own way