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How I Built an AI File Renamer with FastAPI + Electron (and Why Not Tauri)
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How I Built an AI File Renamer with FastAPI + Electron (and Why Not Tauri)

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I had a folder with 2,000 files named things like IMG_8842.jpg , document(3).pdf , and Screenshot 2026-08-02 145321.png . I knew exactly what was in each one β€” the day I saved them. Two weeks later, I had no idea.

Writing regex felt like overkill. Manual renaming was out of the question. So I built RenomeeAI : an AI-powered desktop app that reads what's inside a file β€” its text, metadata, even EXIF data β€” and generates a meaningful filename based on what you tell it you need.

Here's what I chose to build it with, and why.

The Problem I Was Solving

Most file renaming tools work on existing filenames.…

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