From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rainer M Krug Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs metadata editor for (mostly) scientific pdf's Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:10:04 +0100 Message-ID: <50F68A8C.7020603@gmail.com> References: <874niiywrj.fsf@casa.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358334625 16662 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2013 11:10:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:10:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 12:10:43 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TvQtG-0000A3-Dh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:10:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvQsz-0007t2-UR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:10:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43433) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvQsr-0007rF-Q4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvQsq-0007OH-94 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvQsq-0007O5-1E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:10:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TvQt4-0008HX-4Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:10:30 +0100 Original-Received: from arn78-1-88-186-171-7.fbx.proxad.net ([88.186.171.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:10:30 +0100 Original-Received: from R.M.Krug by arn78-1-88-186-171-7.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:10:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: arn78-1-88-186-171-7.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:18.0) Gecko/20121214 Thunderbird/18.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88647 Archived-At: On 16/01/13 11:46, Martin Rubey wrote: > Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > >> () Martin Rubey () 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 >