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Hi
Hazel has been highly recommended to me but I have some concerns about what it can do....

I have a folder with thousands of pdf’s

I wish to click on a *.pdf and do the following tasks:

Copy the pdf name .
Create a folder with the copied name.
Move the pdf into the folder just created.
Open the pdf in preview
Make a screen shot ( shift, command ,5 ) of the pdf
Move the screen shot to the folder
Rinse & repeat for the rest.
So the end result , is a named folder with the same name of the pdf and a SS of the pdf.

Is this possible ?

Ron from Canada

Note that Hazel doesn't respond to clicks, but operates on files according to the conditions you set. Using built-in actions, Hazel can do everything up to opening the PDF in Preview. After that, you will need to use AppleScript or Automator to make the screenshot.

I highly recommend trying this out on a test folder with files before running it over your whole set of thousands of files.