How do you deal with the colons while renaming PDF files?

Question

If a content tag contains a colon, the pdf file can not be renamed successfully. How to solve this problem?

If you encounter colon problem while using A-PDF Rename (free download here), please follow the below instructions to fix:

Add PDF Documents: select "File->Add PDF Document" to add files to the list;
Click "Advanced" in "Rename Method" panel, and input script as below:
Begin
title:= AnsiReplaceStr(title, ':', '_');
newFilename :=title;
End.
Take below image as reference:
Click "Preview" or "Rename" icon, you will get all PDF files renamed with your defined new name pattern.

View video tutorial here:

A-PDF Rename - batch rename multiple PDF document based on content, metadata and file attributes(Size, Datetime) within PDF files. You can batch change or update multiple PDF files metadata (title, creator, producer, author, subject and keywords) as well as
A-PDF Preview and Rename - Preview PDF content easily, rename PDF based on content you previewed.
A-PDF Preview and Move - Preview content for multiple PDF files, then OCR page content to rename and define dest folder to move.

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