Last time, we looked at how copying and renaming with wildcards worked in MS-DOS, and how it doesn’t work well if you are trying to perform search-and-replace operations where the strings have different lengths.įor example, if you have a list of files, say fred001.txt through fred999.txt and you want to rename them to wilma001.txt through wilma999.txt, the obvious command ren fred*.txt wilma*.txt Many other improvements (accuracy, performance.Brand new interface for defining zone: easier and faster.Wow, I'm quite glad to have achieved that. This allows to transform the date to the format of your choice when renaming/exporting. PDFZone is smarter: it can now recognize dates and numbers (and of course text).Rename the PDF files based on their content (define an output format) OR extract the content to a CSV file.Give hundreds of PDF to PDFZone, and it will:.For each type of PDF, tell PDFZone where to extract (= select a zone).Define what you want to extract (a date, an invoice number, the amount of an invoice.Now you just have to use the data in the software of your choice (Excel, accounting. The app will automatically create a CSV file. The first time, tell PDFZone where to find the total amount on such invoice, then give all your invoices (PDF) to PDFZone. Example 2: Suppose you want to have the total amount of your telecom invoices for the last ten years (= 120 monthly invoices). Example 1: Suppose you want to automatically rename all your received invoices with the following format: _, you just need PDFZone for that. Automatically extract your PDF files content to useful data ( CSV file).Automatically rename your PDF files based on their content.

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