PBRenamer is a graphical batch file renaming utility built with Python and Qt 6. It offers live previews, flexible pattern matching and conflict detection, helping users safely rename large collections of files.
Renaming rules can incorporate counters, dates, directory names and metadata extracted from images, audio and video files. PBRenamer also supports regular expressions, recursive processing, reusable presets, selective transformations and undoing previous rename operations. A command-line mode is available for automated and headless use.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Preview proposed filenames before applying changes.
- Detect filename collisions and disable unsafe rename operations.
- Apply transformations to all files or selected entries only.
- Use pattern matching, regular expressions and plain-text substitutions.
- Add counters, dates, modification times and parent directory names.
- Build filenames from EXIF, IPTC, audio and video metadata.
- Convert letter case, separators and accented characters.
- Process subdirectories recursively and preserve file extensions.
- Save frequently used patterns as reusable presets.
- Undo previous batches of filename changes.
- Inspect filesystem information and embedded media metadata.
- Rename files through either the graphical interface or command line.
- Available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Website: github.com/ppoilbarbe/PBRenamer
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Developer: Marcel Spock
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
PBRenamer is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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