On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:23, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Oct 12, 2011, at 05:09 , M. Tamer Özsu wrote: > >> I was simply wondering out loud how some of these other programs manage to >> extract the title/author/... data from the PDF files to at least attempt to >> generate some of this citation information. I now understand that Bibdesk >> does not do this, and that is perfectly fine. > > They do it by scraping information from the PDF, including the DOI. BibDesk > can also do this, using the BDSKShouldParsePDFToGeneratePubMedSearchTerm > hidden preference. I don't use it myself, since it only searches PubMed. > Pretty similar code could probably be used to run a Web of Science search, > though, come to think of it...
Is there any reason why this is turned off by default? I actually wrote most of that code and I thought that it had broken because I did not notice the hidden pref. For biologists/medics, this is an incredibly timesaver and it works with nearly all modern PDFs in this domain. People don't normally drop PDFs onto BibDesk unless they have an existing reference. So I don't see that setting this to true by default would much inconvenience anyone. Setting it to false means that very few people will ever notice and use it. Best, Greg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
