Rename PDFs by What's Inside using Parse Document of PDF4me & n8n (No Code!)
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You receive PDFs—invoices, contracts, purchase orders, reports—and need them renamed by invoice number, customer name, order ID, or contract reference so you can find them later. Doing that by hand? It eats hours.
Sound familiar? You're not alone. Manual renaming doesn't scale.
The fix: an n8n workflow that downloads the file, uses PDF4me Parse Document to extract the value from inside the PDF, merges that value with the file, and uploads it with the new name—automatically. Same content, new filename. No code required.
This guide walks you through three steps: create a parse template in the PDF4me dashboard, wire up Download → Parse document in n8n, then add Merge and Upload so the file is saved with the extracted value as its name.