I have a “To File” folder with about 700 PDFs that I need to rename and organize, mostly OCR-ed scans from my Doxie scanner. I don’t really want to set up Hazel for this, although I could.
Any ideas of good apps for renaming and triaging files?
Have you had a look at Name Mangler from the wonderful Developer, Many Tricks.
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Good but A Better Finder Rename 12 is better (pun intended Lol)
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I have been using A Better Finder Rename, too. It also is very powerful. 
https://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/index.html?lang=en
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I use NameChanger a lot to rename files and then I can easily group them and move them into new folders as required.
I don’t know how advanced you want to get, but there’s a rename function built in, in Finder. Mark the files folder and hit the File menu > Change name (or something similar, I have a Swedish system).
With that you can rename files with numbers, date etc etc. Quite useful bot not on steriods.
FWIW,
/andreas
Yes, if you have multiple files selected, “Rename” in the File menu becomes “Rename…” and you get several options of various powers. But if the Finder Search is used first to narrow down the selected files this technique becomes even more powerful as you can rename based on multiple criteria.
That said, I usually do this using Hazel. I like to do this on the fly, with each new PDF, rather than batch processing a whole folder of PDFs.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
Totally overkill but DevonThink 4 with a local (or web API) GPT will let you create an action that will let GPT review contents of each file and rename the documents (and even add metadata).
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I want the script that magically goes through everything I’ve hoarded and throws away the stuff I will never look at or ever need to look at again. Then it can get down to renaming and tagging what’s left. 
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