Re: [Bibdesk-users] new feature requested for pdfs

[Adam R. M. <ama...@ma...>]

On Mar 29, 2007, at 19:08, Michael McCracken wrote:

> Adam, I may have misled you about the PMID file naming - I poked
> around PubMed today and only got useless non-unique file names (like
> "fulltext.pdf" - gee, thanks!)
> I think that I must have been remembering an app that saved files
> gotten from search results that way... Sorry.

Maybe hubmed does that?  I've heard the same thing, but I generally =20
use sciencedirect or lanl.

> Users: was I wrong - is it more common than I think to download files
> named by their PMID?
>
>
> =46rom their website, Bookends finds a DOI somewhere in the file:
>
>> =95 Import a reference from PubMed automatically when attaching its =
pdf
>>
>> If an attached pdf includes a doi (Digital Object Identifier) that
>> Bookends can resolve and that is listed on PubMed, Bookends will
>> offer to download the reference information and attach the pdf to
>> the new reference. This will work even if you don't have access
>> privileges to the pdf online. Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later is
>> required.
> The movies for Papers show them doing a nifty version of copy and
> paste to build a search from the contents of a PDF, but they don't
> seem to do anything automatically.

I haven't looked at those; I've just been hearing how great Papers is =20=

at automatically doing everything :).  In the next version of BibDesk =20=

it will be pretty easy to open a search group, paste in the pmid, and =20=

get the results.

> =46rom a quick scan of some papers that do have a DOI (it's in the
> MEDLINE export data),
> the best we could do is search the PDF for the string "DOI" and grab
> what's after it.

That's sort of lame, but it's doable; we already do something similar =20=

for using PDF metadata (hidden pref).  I guess a regex for PMID would =20=

also be possible (but lame as well).  The problem with a doi is that =20
it's not required to have a "DOI" string anywhere, so that's not very =20=

reliable either.

adam