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Re: emacs metadata editor for (mostly) scientific pdf's
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Rainer M Krug |
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Re: emacs metadata editor for (mostly) scientific pdf's |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:10:04 +0100 |
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On 16/01/13 11:46, Martin Rubey wrote:
> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:
>
>> () Martin Rubey <axiomize@yahoo.de> () Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:22:42 +0100
>>
>> Well, the main point is being able to edit at least Author, Title, Year
>> easily. (Because
>> pdfmeat makes mistakes)
>>
>> Do these papers have online authoritative metadata (akin to PUBMED for the
>> biological
>> sciences)? It strikes me as backwards to have to mine metadata out of the
>> PDF itself.
>
> Well, sometimes... I often get articles from the arxiv, which do not have
> metadata, but the
> contents coincides with the "published" version, so I can then use the
> metadata from mathscinet
> even if my library does not have access.
>
> However, I just found zotero + zotfile, which is a firefox plugin and does
> what I need.
> Although I love emacs, it's probably better to stick to something which is
> well-maintained.
In this case, you can also look at mendeley (extracting data from pdf) and
JabRef (write data to pdf).
Although I think it would be nice to edit the data in the pdf from emacs.
Cheers,
Rainer
>
> Best,
>
> Martin
>