Automator: combine images as PDF with useful file name

If you already have a variable with the name you want, the easiest way would be to add a Rename Finder Items action after the PDF is created. Set it to Name Single Item, and you can just drag in the variable as the new name.

Here is the issue I ran into with the translation of "Hent ut PDF-tekst" in Google Translate while translating from Norwegian to English, it translated as "Get the PDF text" so when I typed "Get" in the Actions Search Box it didn't show any PDF Actions with the "Get" Actions that did show. Upon further examination I found Extract PDF Text and used it.

I was able to replicate the issue of a zero sized RTF file being created along with the one for the actual PDF file however I was not able to debug it as to why and I did try many different things. Through the Workflow it showed Bane as a Folder being the path to the selected PDF File but then converted it to the zero sized RTF along with the proper RTF file and to me it looks like a bug in Automator.

That said, I present a workaround that you can choose to use if no one else has an answer that resolves the issue without resorting to this workaround.

Add a Run Shell Script Action to the end of the list of Actions, setting Shell: /bin/bash and Pass input: as argument with the following code:

for f in "$@"; do
    if [ ! -s "$f" ]; then
        rm "$f"
    fi
done

Which translates to: If this file does not have a size greater than zero, then delete it.

BTW If you want to test the code first, you can temporarily replace rm "$f" with something like say deleting "$f" so you can hear what file it's going to delete. When satisfied it's going to delete the zero sized file, then put it back to rm "$f".

Here is an image of my Automator Service.