PDF AI Renamer 2.0 is out — full redesign + on-device analysis for docs & images

Following up on my earlier posts here — 2.0 just shipped with a full redesign and on-device OCR for scans/images. Posting per the new PCP format: Problem PDFs and scans pile up with meaningless names — scan_0042.pdf, IMG_3891.HEIC, Unbenannt-3.pdf — and manually opening, reading, and renaming each one doesn't scale. Existing "smart" tools either rely on rules based on metadata you already have to know (useless when the filename itself carries zero information), or they ship your document content to a cloud API — a non-starter for invoices, contracts, or anything sensitive. PDF AI Renamer reads what's actually inside the file — text or, as of 2.0, scanned images via on-device OCR — and generates a structured filename from it, entirely on your Mac via Apple's MLX framework. No server round-trip, no text layer required. Comparison - Hazel — the classic macOS automation tool, but purely rule-based: it moves/renames based on metadata, dates, or folder location, not document content. It can't tell that scan_0042.pdf is an April invoice from a specific vendor — it has no way to read that out of the file. PDF AI Renamer is content-aware: it extracts sender/date/subject from the actual document (OCR'd if needed) and builds the name from that — no rule maintenance, no folder-watcher setup, works the moment you drop a file in. - RenameClick / Zush — closer competitors: both also do AI content-based renaming for PDFs and images. But their free/local tiers are capped (e.g. a monthly credit allowance) before you're pushed toward cloud AI or a subscription just to keep renaming. PDF AI Renamer's inference runs on-device with no per-rename cloud dependency — since 2.0 this now also covers scans and images (JPEG/PNG/HEIC/TIFF) via on-device Vision-framework OCR + a vision-capable local model (Gemma3 4B), not just PDFs with a text layer. Example: drop in scan_0042.pdf (an unreadable scanned invoice) → OCR'd and read on-device → renamed to something like 2024-03-15_Acme-GmbH_Invoice_1234.pdf, using your own custom template and placeholders. Pricing Monthly subscription: 2,99€ Annual subscription: 17,99€ Lifetime: 19,99€ Product & developer websites: Apple AppStore (MacOS) https://pdf-ai-renamer.com https://alexander.giehoff.de