View and Rename PDF

If you have the habit of downloading catalogs, literature, user manuals or shopping magazines from the web, then there is a good chance that you piled up quite an impressive collection of PDF files on your hard drive.

As the name suggests, View and Rename PDF is an application designed to help you untangle the random PDF files you accumulated and that you want to you organize and find easier whenever necessary.

While the program comes with an old-school GUI that is rather small, that should not be much of a problem considering that it deals with one file at a time. The interface consists of four panels where you can preview the path for the original file, directory to save the new file, new name as well as a log.

Despite the troublesome size, the UI features numerous menus and displays the shortcuts for them, so you can easily learn how to operate the program more efficiently when managing dozens of files at the same time. It is worth mentioning that if you load a directory, then the app enables you to preview and rename it each of them at a time.

The highlight of the application stems from the fact that it permits you to customize the filenames in a manner that permits you to identify them easier. Depending on the circumstances, you can add two-digit month, day, hour, minute, seconds and two or four-digit year. If it makes things easier, you can also make sure the new file does not include the extension.

As far as the viewing is concerned, you should take note that the app does not include its own tool. It employs the third-party solution you are currently using for previewing PDF files, an option that spares you any trouble with file associations.

While it is not exactly eye-candy, View and Rename PDF compensates through the ease of operation via dedicated shortcuts, so it may be a tool to try out when you decided to organize your PDF files or clean your hard drive.