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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.

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matthewshere 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Appreciate 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/ to handle specific data extraction tasks like yours is definitely something I'll consider carefully for the future roadmap. Thanks for highlighting it!

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voidUpdate 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Unfortunately, PDFs are right buggers to work with and there often isn't an "easy to find value" for anything

	▲	matthewshere 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You're absolutely right, PDFs can be incredibly tricky. That lack of a consistent, easily parsable structure for arbitrary data is the core challenge.
	▲	6510 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I 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.