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[ferday]

hi,

i downloaded a label discography from Bandcamp, and all the actual file and folder names are in wacky fonts.  windows recognises them ok, but JRiver does not.

i just want the song and artist names, etc. - is there a way to get these recognised in JRiver, and if not (or alternatively) does anyone know of a nice explorer friendly renaming tool that will change the font for me in windows?

thanks

[zybex]

Filenames don't have Fonts, they have character sets (unicode). That would be like wanting to convert Japanese characters into Latin.
Can you post an example/screenshot of what you have and what you want?

[ferday]

yes zybex, that's what i meant, thanks (title corrected).  i have a lot of files in the "Mathematical Alphanumerical" unicode block, for example:

𝗞𝗮𝘁𝘇𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 - PILLARS OF CREATION

the first word is displayed as "Cambria Math" as a display font in windows, but in JRiver it shows as "ݗ?ݗ®ݘ?ݘ?ݗ²ݗ»ݗ¸ݗ¹ݗ®ݘ?ݗ¶ݗ²ݗ¿".
there are multiple other "XXX Math" sets used throughout the file set.

there are 50 albums so it's enough work i'd prefer not to do it "by hand" but it's not enough that i want to try and write something to do it for me.

[zybex]

That's a nice protection technique! I'd never seen it before.

You can convert to regular text using Word:
- Insert->Equation, CTRL+V to paste your text inside it
- click on Equation->Text (so now both Text and Unicode are selected)
- select the equation box again, change the font to Calibri on Home->Font (not needed)
- copy the equation (CTRL+C), click outside the equation box, paste as Unformatted Text (Keep Text Only)

[ferday]

thanks mate, i wasn't sure where the "fontname Math" came from, the equations module makes sense!

[zybex]

Cool
Another faster/simpler way is using this mini-tool called Text-Grab: You just draw a box around the text with the mouse (like screen capture) and it does OCR on it, putting the regular text on the clipboard.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/text-grab/9mznkqj7sl0b?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

It's paid, or you can compile from the source code for free:
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab

[ferday]

wow, that's neat.  My c# is good, I think I'll try it out

Cheers!

[zybex]

You can ignore the "Text-Grab-Package" project, just compile the Text-Grab main project with VS19. You'll need the NetCore 3.1 package installed.