From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-05-18T06:45:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Pdf Parsing Challenge

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Felipe Espinoza
<fespinozacast@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to do this automatically, I'll be doing it for a lot of papers
> and then take that data to a database

Unless the papers are all (near) identical in layout, this will be
difficult, since PDFs lack semantic information.

Can you instead query a DB for the DOI of the paper (getting the DOI
via the filename, or via the title of the paper, assuming the title is
easy to grab), and use said DOI DB to get the information in a way
that's much easier to process?

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.