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Paperboy is a tiny .pdf management utility. If you download papers and other pdf documents, you might have noticed that filenames like 1412.4880.pdf are not terribly helpful for finding anything later on. This tool helps with that. It will offer to rename and move files to a specified folder, and it even gives some filename suggestions by looking at the content and the pdf metadata. Paperboy keeps its file management dumb on purpose (no keeping files in a database or hidden library folder), so you can uninstall it at any time and your files will remain perfectly accessible. Any pointers or help with regards to generate .deb, .rpm, AUR PKGBUILD, etc is appreciated. Ideally this could be mostly automated in CI, in the end Paperboy is just a single binary with a dependency or two. How do other packages do it? If you got a good example or link, open a GitHub issue! Make sure you have poppler installed, which will provide both pdftotext and pdfinfo.
Features
- Paperboy creates a pboy.ini in your XDG config directory
- Paperboy keeps its file management dumb on purpose
- You can uninstall it at any time and your files will remain perfectly accessible
- It will offer to rename and move files to a specified folder
- Small .pdf management tool with a command-line UI
- Download the archive for your operating system
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