Strip rule

This rule strips a list of characters from the filename. It offers predefined character sets, like digits, symbols and brackets, but you can also define your own character set. All occurrences of the specified characters will be removed from the filename.

Character set options

English

Strip all English characters: "a" through "z".

Characters used in other languages, including those with diacritical marks, will not be stripped.

Digits

Strip all digits: "0" through "9".

Symbols

Strip common symbols: !"#$%&'*+,-./:;=?@^_`|~.

Brackets

Stip common brackets: (){}[]<>

The content between the brackets will remain unaffected. If you want to delete the content as well, use the Clean Up rule instead.

User defined

Specify any characters that need to be removed.

Unicode range

Strip Unicode codepoints by their hexadecimal codes.

You can specify a range of characters using the - (dash) between two codes.

Multiple codes and ranges can be separated using the , (comma) character.

For example:

• 10000-10FFFF for supplementary planes,
• 200B,200C,200D,FEFF for zero width characters.

Positioning options

• Everywhere – The characters will be stripped no matter where they occur in the filename.
• Leading – Strip characters only at the beginning of the filename.
• Trailing – Strip characters only at the end of the filename.

General options

Strip all characters except selected

Invert the logic by keeping only the specified characters, and striping all other characters.

For example, if you want to strip all non-English characters, select this option along with the English character set option above.

Case sensitive

Match character case exactly when searching for characters to remove.

When enabled, "A" will not match "a". When disabled, uppercase and lowercase letters are treated as equivalent.

Skip extension

If checked, the file extension will be excluded from processing and will remain unaffected.