Analyze file content

nymos names a file from what is inside it, not from the name it already has. That is the whole difference between it and a find-and-replace renamer: there is nothing to find and replace in Scan_0042.pdf, because the information was never in the name. It was in the document. Here is what nymos reads from each kind of file.

Documents

For a PDF, a Word file or a slide deck, nymos reads the actual text: the document's type and title, the parties and companies on it, the dates, reference and invoice numbers, and amounts. It recognises structure too, a letterhead, a heading, a total, so an invoice is named like an invoice and a letter like a letter.

Scanned documents

A scan has no text layer, just an image of a page. nymos runs OCR on your Mac to read it first, then names it from the recovered text. A scanned receipt ends up as readable as a digital one, with no extra step from you.

Spreadsheets and data

For a spreadsheet or a CSV, the headers and the shape of the data do the talking: what the columns are, the range of dates, the kind of figures. An export dumped out as sheet1.xlsx becomes something that says what it holds.

Images

For a photo or a screenshot, nymos looks at the picture itself, the scene, the subject, any recognisable place or brand, and reads any text in it. Where an image carries capture details, they help place it in time.

Only what's needed

In every case it is the extracted content that is analysed, a document's text or a downscaled copy of an image, never the whole file and never your surrounding folders. The output is a name; the file's contents are left exactly as they were.