How to rename 2400+ PDFs with AutoIt based on its Title?

[Albertxu]

Hi, my hard disk met with some problems and all partitions missing and so as files. I do recover large part of my docs after using Easy Recovery, but the recovered files are all in a mess --they are renamed with such names as FIL0, FIL99 etc.

My question is: how can I read the titles from within the PDF document and then rename the files with title using AutoIt. I know that some of them have blank titles but at leat 60% of them have. For those who don't understand the title of the PDFs, you can just find it out as you click in Adobe Acrobat menus -File-> Property, there you can see the title along with the author.

Can someone help me?

Edited June 8, 2011 by Albertxu

[hannes08]

Hi Albertxu,

you can open the PDF with FileOpen or _FileReadToArray and look for the strings /Author and /Title.

This should give you the information requested.

[water]

I can't find it at the moment but there seems to be an example script that lists all attibutes of a file (those that you can select as columns for the Windows Explorer).

Edit: Got it! Try or to extract all file properties.

Edited June 8, 2011 by water

[hannes08]

I can't find it at the moment but there seems to be an example script that lists all attibutes of a file (those that you can select as columns for the Windows Explorer).

Edit: Got it! Try or to extract all file properties.

I'm not sure if there's Metadata ready for PDF files. On my XP I cannot see it in Windows Explorer. Maybe under Win Vista or 7. I think looking at the text of the file will be the easier method here.

[water]

Just tried it on W7 and - unfortunately - you are right!

Edited June 8, 2011 by water

[Zedna]

Maybe some type of COM/AcitveX library can help you with that.

For example (some result of search on this forum):

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

[ReFran]

Hi,

because you have Adobe Acrobat you can control it via IAC (activeX)

You may use the attached script.

HTH, Reinhard

$FilePath = "C:\Test.pdf"
;;----------------------
$App = ObjCreate("AcroExch.App")       ;; start Adobe Acrobat
$App.Show                              ;; show Acrobat or comment out for hidden mode
$AVDoc = ObjCreate("AcroExch.AVDoc")   ;; connect to Ac Viewer
If $AVDoc.Open($FilePath,"") Then      ;; open the file
    $title = $avDoc.getTitle       ;; get the title      
    MsgBox(0,"",$title)
endif
$app.exit()                            ;; close process
;; release objects
$AvDoc = 0
$App = 0