So I've made some progress on this applescript but seek some help from
those on this list who have used applescript before and understand the
BibDesk dictionary a bit. I now can drag PDFs into BibDesk where they get
blank records. I can then hit CMD+SHFT+P and the full BibTeX record is
displayed from pdfmeat.py. What I need help with is looping through each
element of this BibTeX record and inserting it into the current blank one.
My current code follows. Any help/hints will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
-k.
*tell* *application* "BibDesk"
*set* theDoc *to* *document* 1
* tell* theDoc
*set* theSel *to* selection
*set* thePub *to* *item* 1 *of* theSel
*tell* thePub
-- current (probably empty?) BibTeX record
*set* curBibTeXRecord *to* *get* BibTeX string *of* thePub
-- get the BibTeX record using pdfmeat.py. Wrap it in a shell script
because it needs a full path, write access to a folder, etc.
*set* theFiles *to* *get*
*linked files* *set* thePath *to* POSIX path *of* theFiles
*set* shellCmd *to* "/Users/mankoff/bin/pdfmeat.sh " & "'" & thePath& "'"
*set* pdfMeatOutput *to do shell script* shellCmd
--display dialog pdfMeatOutput
--display dialog curBibTeXRecord
*end*
*tell** end*
*tell**end* *tell*
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Ken Mankoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just discovered pdfmeat at https://code.google.com/p/pdfmeat/ which as
> of one year ago includes a stand-alone CLI python script to generate BibTeX
> entries given a file. To get it working on OS X I had to change the path
> for the FireFox cookie file from ~/mozilla/firefox/ to
> ~/Library/Application Support/FireFox/Profiles/, did "pip install X" for
> each X it complained was missing, and it "just worked". Nice.
>
> It seems like this could be wrapped in a plugin so that drag-and-dropping
> PDF files onto BibDesk could auto-import with meta-data, just like Mendely
> and Papers and Zotero and all the other PDF/bibliography managers.
>
> I searched for "pdfmeat" and "bibdesk" and found almost no hits. Is anyone
> aware of such a plugin, or anyone familiar with plugin writing un-aware of
> pdfmeat and now interested in creating this plugin? If not, I may have to
> figure out how BibDesk plugins work...
>
> -k.
>
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