Rename PDF Files Based on Their Content — AI Reads Inside
Scanners, downloads, and email attachments all produce meaningless filenames. Renomee reads the actual content of each PDF — title, date, vendor, document type — and renames the whole folder in one pass. No regex. No scripts. No manual typing.
Why your PDFs all have meaningless filenames
The content is valuable — the filename is a server timestamp. You didn't choose these names and you can't fix them one by one.
Every scanner generates sequential numbers or timestamps. The document inside could be a tax return or a birthday card — the filename is always the same.
Download buttons name files however the server configured them — often a hash, a session ID, or a generic 'document.pdf'. You get what the server decides.
Senders name files however they feel like it — 'final', 'v2', 'approved', or nothing meaningful. You inherit their habits.
CRM, ERP, and accounting software export with internal IDs, not human-readable names. These are the worst — they look meaningful but contain no useful information.
How Renomee reads inside a PDF
Three extraction layers work together — Renomee picks the best one for each file automatically.
💡 For most folders, Renomee uses all three layers in sequence: metadata first, AI reading second, OCR fallback for scanned pages. You get the most accurate name possible for every file in the batch.
What Renomee extracts from each document type — and how it combines the fields
Renomee identifies the document type first, then pulls the relevant fields from whichever layer has them — metadata header, OCR text, or AI reading. Each recipe below shows the exact fields extracted and how they combine into a filename.
- Vendor / company name
- Invoice number
- Invoice date
- Total amount (optional)
{Vendor}_{InvoiceNo}_{Date}.pdfAcme_Corp_INV-2024-001_2024-03-15.pdf- Agreement type
- Party names
- Effective / signing date
{Type}_{Party}_{Date}.pdfNDA_TechCorp_2024-01-15.pdf- Author last name (from Author field)
- Publication year (from CreationDate)
- Paper title (from Title field)
{Author}_{Year}_{Title}.pdfZhang_2024_AI_Medicine_Survey.pdf- Bank name
- Account type (checking / savings)
- Statement period (month + year)
{Bank}_{Account}_{YYYY-MM}.pdfHSBC_Checking_2024-03.pdf- Report title (from Title field or heading)
- Department / author
- Reporting period
{Title}_{Dept}_{Year}.pdfQ4_Financial_Review_Finance_2024.pdf- Patient name
- Document type (lab / discharge / prescription)
- Record date
{Patient}_{DocType}_{Date}.pdfSmith_John_Lab_Results_2024-03-15.pdf- Merchant name
- Total amount
- Purchase date
{Merchant}_{Amount}_{Date}.pdfStarbucks_12.50_2024-03-15.pdfRename a folder of PDFs based on content in 4 steps
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