Application for organizing PDF's?

xplan303ex · #1 October 27th, 2007, 05:03 PM

Hi all, I am looking for an app that will allow me to do to PDF's what iTunes does to MP3's. Create a library where I can store PDF title, publisher, author, etc. etc. So far I can't find any.

thanks in advance!

eduviges · #2 October 27th, 2007, 09:56 PM

Depending on your needs you may want to give the following a try:
Bookends
Devon Think Office
EagleFiler
Yojimbo
etc.

**fryke** · #3 October 27th, 2007, 10:15 PM

I thought those infos were already part of PDFs' metadata. Isn't the Finder/Spotlight already a good combo for such an endeavour?

xplan303ex · #4 October 28th, 2007, 12:46 AM

Thank you for the replies. More than being able to look for the specific file (I can do that with Spotlight) I want something that will rename and organize the files consistently. I tried Papers, and even though I set it to copy files to library folder, it won't do it. Plus it is 29 euros.

eduviges · #5 October 29th, 2007, 02:03 AM

For renaming them File Buddy is great, but it won’t help you with your other needs.
Bookends can organize them. I have a small collection of PDF files and in Bookends you can see the Author, Title, Year, Abstract, and the file (as an attachment). I haven’t used it in a while, though, and you have to do a lot of the input work manually.
For organizing files some people just drag them into DevonThink. I prefere to set up a structure and then import the structure into DevonThink. That is, I do a lot of the organizing by hand.

dandj · #6 October 29th, 2007, 06:10 PM

Try "Yep".

It will organise all your PDF's and you can tag and search them anyway you want.