typea

TypeA is a file renaming tool used by Type-A personalities to rename PDFs, typically research articles. These research articles often have long names with little meaning. TypeA reads extended file attributes (xattrs) and copies the file to a new directory using the format author - title.pdf.

Instructions

Installation

1. Download this repository.
2. Open a terminal session.
3. Navigate to the new repository.
4. Type ./setup to install.

Executing

1. Download this repository.
2. Open a terminal session.
3. Navigate to the new repository
4. Move the PDFs you wish to rename into the project folder (inside the toplevel typea).
5. Type ./typea.py to rename.
6. The PDFs will be in a folder called renamed_articles.

Screenshots

Todo

1. Support for multiple parameters.
   1. Target input directories
   2. Target output directories
   3. Specify delimeter
   4. Specify naming pattern
   5. Remove old files
2. Convert project to Golang
3. Compiled version, placed in bin for easier calls
4. PDF parsing for articles which don't have the needed xattrs.
5. GUI.
6. Better tutorial/instructions.
7. Better title/author discovery.
8. Support for publishers which don't add metadata to PDFs:
   1. arXiv (api)