pdfname vs pboy

pdfname

Name a PDF file using information from the `pdfinfo` command (by asr)

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pboy

a small .pdf management tool with a command-line UI (by 2mol)

Command-line PDF Productivity Haskell Linux MacOS console-application TUI

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pdfname		pboy
	Project
-	Mentions	3
2	Stars	735
-	Growth	-
5.6	Activity	0.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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pdfname

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

pboy

Posts with mentions or reviews of pboy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-07.

How to auto-rename the downloaded article to the title of the article?
1 project | /r/scihub | 7 Apr 2023

In case you use Linux or Mac https://github.com/2mol/pboy/
Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell
27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2022
Is there a script in linux to bulk rename scientific literature pdfs based on metadata?
3 projects | /r/commandline | 5 Sep 2021

Not a script, but pboy is a TUI program that tries to do exactly that. However I'm afraid it lacks options for proper renaming of academic PDFs, it doesn't find authors or year for instance, which I usually put in my PDF filenames.