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I see references here about zotero being able to look up metadata for a pdf. I'm slightly confused what that means, is that just meta data in the pdf file, tha
by anfractuosity 8y ago
I see references here about zotero being able to look up metadata for a pdf.
I'm slightly confused what that means, is that just meta data in the pdf file, that isn't visually visible?
For a while I've wanted to make something that can extract the title, authors, and bibliography visually from a pdf. Is that what zotero can do also?
- dstillman 8y agoIt doesn't use embedded metadata in the file, which is usually pretty low quality. It looks for various identifiers (DOI, ISBN) in the first few pages that can be used to retrieve high-quality metadata from external services. It also does some analysis to try to identify the title, authors, abstract, etc., and compares those against known metadata for further lookups and/or to supplement the retrieved metadata. (This is a web service [1] because of the database requirements, but we don't log any data about the contents or results of searches, and it's an optional feature.) For extracting metadata from a formatted bibliography you can use AnyStyle [2], which is a separate service written by a Zotero developer. [1] https://github.com/zotero/recognizer-server https://github.com/zotero/recognizer-server [2] https://anystyle.io https://anystyle.io
- anfractuosity 8y agoGotcha, thanks a lot for your reply!