This is a small script for renamin scientific articles. It takes an article path as argument and renames it if it can find a DOI code or arXiv ID in the PDF. It renames it with the title of the article. When no name is found, the file name is not changed.
This script is provided as is and can eventually have bad results.
In order to run it need to have xpdf installed (the script depends on pdftotext). A good way to install this command line tool on OS X is to have homebrew installed, and then execute:
brew install xpdfIf you want to automatically rename pdf articles added to a specific folder on OS X, you can add a new folder action. For this open Automator.app and open the "Rename Article" workflow provided in the utils folder. You can then change the folder you want to apply the workflow to, as well as the path to the rename_article script.
MIT/X11