Extract references from PDF and create new library items from them

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Greetings!

Input: PDF-file containing a “References” section, listing a number of cited papers mentioning Author1, Author 2, Journal, Volume, Year for each cited paper.
Operation: Endnote X8 extracts list of cited papers from PDF, looks up metadata of each cited paper using a server (Google Scholar, Pubmed, etc.) and adds these as new library items in the users “My Library” folder.
Output: New subcollection of library items containing all papers cited in PDF that was used for input.

How does one can do this with EndNote X8?

Thank you.

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Dear Leanne,

  For instance, I have a PDF with article. How do I exctract all items of its Reference section and pass is to the commercial database (Scopus, WoS, etc.) and feed to EndNote.

  Can you clarify workflow in more details please?

Thank you.

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Thank you for the suggestion on Scopus.

So far I have researched the following workflow:

  1. extract a list of all references from a PDF article using CERMINE;

  2. parse the list using WizFolio (credit to Kumar Vignesh from EndNote technical support team) and export found references to a RIS file;

  3. import the RIS file to EndNote (see http://www.screencast.com/t/NjFkMDc1N).

The way is still long and not straightforward…

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I’ve written a Chrome Extension called Scholarcy that extracts the references from a PDF as BibTex.

It does a whole bunch of other stuff too but if you just want the references you can disable the other options.

In the current release, the PDF needs to be at a public URL (i.e. not requiring an institutional log in).

Best

Phil

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Does Endnote support import of BibTex files?

I’ve written a Chrome Extension called Scholarcy that extracts the references from a PDF as BibTex.

It does a whole bunch of other stuff too but if you just want the references you can disable the other options.

In the current release, the PDF needs to be at a public URL (i.e. not requiring an institutional log in).

I can add RIS support if there is demand for it.

I have an API also, so if the Endnote developers wanted to add this as an integral feature it would be possible.

Best

Phil

scholarcy.com

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Hi everyone,
Is there any other solution for this? I don’t have access to Scopus. I have already used Web of Science, but still, around half of the articles were not found in WoS.
Thank you,
iag