FileSense: Let Local AI Handle the File Names You Keep Putting Off

Description and use

FileSense automates the tedious step of renaming files by providing AI‑generated, descriptive filenames locally, reducing manual reading and typing while preserving privacy.

Problem

Professionals, researchers, and students accumulate folders of documents with obscure or auto‑generated filenames, and renaming them manually requires opening each file, reading its contents, and typing a new name, which is tedious and exposes confidential data to cloud services.

Outcome

FileSense automates the tedious step of renaming files by providing AI‑generated, descriptive filenames locally, reducing manual reading and typing while preserving privacy.

Workflow

• Upload files via drag‑and‑drop or browse (browser memory only).
• PDF.js extracts text from up to the first ten pages.
• Excerpt sent to local backend and Ollama for filename suggestion.
• Zod validates the model response.
• User reviews or edits suggestions in a table.
• JSZip packages selected documents with renamed copies into a ZIP.
• Download ZIP; original files stay on disk unchanged.