Berliner
Joined: 20 Dec 2010 Posts: 1 Location: Berlin, Germany
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 3:26 pm Post subject: a common file renaming task |
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A very common task of renaming of files is still waiting on the software tool which can solve the task. At the moment, the user itselfs is the tool.
I think, Pfrank is the most advanced tool to help the user with this task
If you download many scientific or other important publications from publishers, institutions, agencies or government, you get files with useless names.
1. example
This is one of the actuell issue of the Official Journal of the European Union
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:340:SOM:EN:HTML
nobody likes regulations, but you have to know the text of the regulation. If you download one of the pdf-files, you get file names like this
l_33820101222en00010006.pdf
This file names follows a clear file name rules. Unfortunately, this file name rules is useless outside the european government. Only some figures are useful.
The original file name includes the date of publication 201012-22, but you need drei search replace operations with regular expressions to save the information you need.
Where is the document title? Of course at the beginning of the first side of the document and at the website left of the pdf-symbol. And you the find the document title since 2010 in the correct line of the metadata of the file
Therefore your plugin
Insert Title MetaData From PDF files
should be not only a plugin, it should be part of the common configuration of pfrank. It is very useful and necessary
So the user could integrate the document title in the file title. As you see on the website of the european journal, the document titles are are always too long.
Nicht really a problem for your software. 4, sometimes 5 search and replace operations with regular expression and the document title is short enough for a one view understanding of the content of the file.
This is a easy renaming task.
2. example
You see a actual regulation of the german parliament
http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21.web/search/find_without_search_list.do?selId=31710&method=select&offset=0&anzahl=100&sort=3&direction=desc
The file name of this regulation file follows also a file name rule. The information is usefull and should be part of the final file name. Unfortunately, the metadata are empty. You have to copy the document title and the date of publication from the website to the clipboard.
The task for the renamer is to integrate name parts from the clipboard in the final file name.
3. example
An actual publications of the european medicines agency
http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/medicines/human/medicines/002105/smops/Positive/human_smop_000162.jsp&murl=menus/medicines/medicines.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058001d127
you see a pdf link with a really good link title, which is equal with the document title and will be part of the file name. The date of publication stands nearby 17/12/2010, If you download the pdf, you get
WC500099946.pdf
as the file name. Such a type of file name is perharps useful in the agency. The user of these files needs files names you can understand with one view
Resumee
There is a big demand for a file renamer, which can handle the task of renaming files during the download. The manual renaming of files cost time and is a task nobody likes.
Most of this manual renaming you can automate
Pfrank is the most advanced tool to handle this task
Pfrank is like a washing maschine
The original file names are the dirty clothes
The text modules copied in the clipboard are the washing powders
The set of search replace operations with regular expressions are the washing program designed for every popular website with downloadable files
(of course depend the washing programs onto to the name rules for the final file names)
And finally the clean clothes are the final file names
thanks for your attention
Berliner |
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