PDF Renaming - A utility to assist in renaming sets of PDF files.
PDF renaming assists in renaming PDF files based on content. A subset of the content of the file is shown in a way that can be edited to give the new title for the PDF file.
pdftotext
provided by poppler (PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0)
- Can provide poor results
- GhostScript
- PDF to text is provided by GhostScript. The command is invoked as:
gs -q -dNODISPLAY -P- -dSAFER -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -c save -f ps2ascii.ps connector-semantics.pdf -c quit
- This was obtained by looking at
ps2ascii
and adding the page restrictions.
- This was obtained by looking at
- Text is shown in a buffer where it can be edited into a filename, presumably using the title text