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Re:Show HN: An OCR PDF large batch renaming tool by Neuronree on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @12:07AM (#44655650)
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).
Re:Show HN: An OCR PDF large batch renaming tool by ai_viewz on Saturday July 26, 2025 @05:39AM (#44692732)
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.