Hi,
If you download a pdf from the journal very often it has a cryptic name.
I guess most of us are using Mendeley etc... but if you need from time to time rename your pdf files, don't forget about pubmex :-)
Pubmex a script to get a fancy paper title based on given DOI or PMID.
If you submit DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-863-8_2 you will get Shepherd.Ibba.Bacterial.transfer.RNAs.FEMSMicrobiolRev.2015.pdf.
You can use Python script to "watch" your folder for pdfs and change their names automatically.
It is very old, I think I wrote the first version 6-7 y ago :-) right now I use Mendeley, but I use the web server from time to time if I want to send a pdf to someone else.
The standalone version is here and the web server is here.
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This really made me excited because my advisor is pretty particular about the naming the files including code, pdfs of the papers that I send him. As a result, I came up with a similar naming scheme (I guess everyone uses more or less the same scheme) that includes name of the first and last author, keywords, year and organism used. I tested your tools on few of my papers but IMHO the tool didn't give me decent file names. It keeps using the complete title of the paper that I would avoid because it is making the file name too long. Nevertheless, it is a great tool. Thanks.
It is hard to shorten meaningfully long names. You can use `keywords`. Then the title will be replace be keywords. Please, play around with the example `keywords` from the server.
Hehe.. in my case it was the same. My boss came up with this way of naming files :-)
Since it's open source, you can take the code and change it how you like :-)
Interesting!
Thank you for sharing ;)
see also: https://github.com/elfar/PubmedPDF