Show HN: An OCR PDF large batch renaming tool(github.com)
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Show HN: An OCR PDF large batch renaming tool
https://github.com/Neuron89/PDF_Rename
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I am working for a company that had a very old data base and still does a lot with paper. I started working on digitizing and organizing everything and I found it would be easiest to scan in large batches but naming would take forever. I decided to build a pretty basic python script using OCR to pull the data from the PDFs and use it for renaming. Once it worked well, I fell down the rabbit hole of making it a web app and setting it up to be easy to setup (even for the very non technical).
You had a list of regions, and extracted text for each region and then created a new file name on the basis of region text and renamed the file.