Rename based on the contents of a file?

Hi,

I am seriously getting into my paperless workflow and picked up Hazel via a tip from someones blog. I can't believe how useful this tool is and what great value for money it is.

One question I have is, I am currently using hazel to look at the contents of OCR'd pdf's to work out which subfolder to move it into (which works fine), what i would like to do is to chain a rule that renamed the file based on the contents of the file it's just processed.

E.g. scanfile1-2013-01-30-21:10.pdf contains account number 12345 and billing date:23rd January 2013, so i want the file to go into a directory called 12345, but would like to rename the file to "client-12345-23rd January 2013.pdf"

Is the only way to do this to execute a script (python, applescript) on the moved file (eg write a regex)

Anyway, hope that makes sense, and thanks for any help

M

Yes, the only way to do this is with script. Unfortunately, the 'content' metadata attribute is not plaintext; it is a hash of words within the file output from the mdimporter (i.e. for faster searching, etc.).

Happy to help with scripting though.

Thanks for the feedback. Makes sense thinking about it. I've put some python together to do what I am after so I'll post back if I run into any issues

M