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#672 Auto import PDFs based on bibkey naming scheme
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nobody
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2015-07-30
2010-06-01
Anonymous
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I have a large collection of PDFs of journal articles that I've downloaded over some years. The PDF files have names that are closely related to the bibkey of the corresponding bibitem.
A nice feature of JabRef would be to tell it to auto-import all PDF files in a given directory based on the correspondence between the file name and bibkeys in my .bib file.
Of course, it would be even better if JabRef could sniff out metadata in the same way as Zotero does: http://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata
I also think that this requested feature is quite important! Another nice feature would be the possibility to download directly the pdf when adding an article (eg. from arxiv or hep-spires). It's quite uncomfortable to always have to include the article into jabref AND download it and link it manually (I want the pdfs on my local harddrive). It's just too time consuming and i don't know if i still can use jabref if this isn't changed.
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Although this issue has been partially adressed (with the automatic file linking, Alt+F) I think it would be better if we could run the automation for the whole database at once instead of entry by entry.
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Eerp. Tools>Scan database does it.
Close subject ?
Still a problem is that fact that you can´t name the files as the bibtex key (or old arXiv code) on a windows machine, since those contain characters like : and / which are not allowed. Has anyone a solution to this issue?
Furthermore the autodownload feature mentioned in my last post would be very convenient ;) (as would be the option to download the abstract from arXiv, which still doesn´t work :().