Rename Academic Papers

Because downloaded papers seldom have names that a human can identify.

Usage

First download pdftoxml and add to your path: linux, MacOS.

Next add paper-rename.py to your path. Then run:

To rename a given file

paper-rename.py -f paper.pdf
paper-rename.py --file paper.pdf

To rename all the pdf files in a given folder recursively

paper-rename.py --dir path2folder

I wrap this in a script to maintain my papers repository.

Known Issues

Papers which have journal names written at the top are incorrectly parsed. I haven't been able to find a simple solution to this problem. Contributions are welcome.