Local-First | Sebastian Spicker

2025

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22 Mar 2025 The Papertrail: AI PDF Renaming and the Tokens That Make It Interesting Everyone has a Downloads folder full of “scan0023.pdf” and “document(3)-final-FINAL.pdf”. Renaming them by content sounds trivial — read the file, understand what it is, give it a name. The implementation reveals something useful about how LLMs actually handle text: what a token is, why context windows matter in practice, why you want structured output instead of prose, and why heuristics should go first. The project, now called Folionym, is at github.com/sebastianspicker/folionym. llmpdfautomation