Ok all done! Thanks for those who supplied some tips. With this AppleScript
and a working pdfmeat.py (test it from the command line), I can drag a PDF
into BibDesk, select it, and populate it with all of the data from Google
Scholar.
-k.
*property* useFileURL : *true*
-- use relative or absolute path?
*property* useRelativePath : *false*
-- delete linked files/URLs after converting?
*property* deleteLinkedFiles : *false*
*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* theFile *to* *get* *linked files*
*set* thePath *to* POSIX path *of* theFile
*set* shellOpts *to* "cd /tmp; PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin " -- path to
pdftotext program
*set* pdfMeatCmd *to* "/path/to/python /path/to/pdfmeat.py "
*set* shellCmd *to* shellOpts & pdfMeatCmd & "'" & thePath & "'"
*set* pdfMeatOutput *to* *do shell script* shellCmd
*end* *tell*
*set* newPubs *to* *import* from pdfMeatOutput
*set* newPub *to* (*get* *item* 1 *of* newPubs)
*tell* newPub
*make* new *linked file* with data theFile at *beginning* *of* *linked
files*
*set* cite key *to* generated cite key
*end* *tell*
*show* thePub
*show* newPub
--delete thePub
*end* *tell*
*end* *tell*
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