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SHOW HN2015
93points
35comments
#273of 2,565 in 2015
Top 11%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.
Execution: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful tool and neat to have a Python implementation
From 2 comments
Most PDF scientific articles sadly don't have good embedded metadata [0], so this & the DOI issue make this not very useful (at least for the journals I read). I also would have…
rossmounce on HNThis is really neat! For work, I've found myself from time to time exploring the tech around PDFs. I find this tech strangely fascinating. It's like a shim on top of something…
adelevie on HN
Objections
Most scientific PDFs lack good embedded metadata, so the tool is less useful
From 1 comment
Most PDF scientific articles sadly don't have good embedded metadata [0], so this & the DOI issue make this not very useful (at least for the journals I read). I also would have…
rossmounce on HN
Does not handle DOI links, only direct PDF links
From 1 comment
While nice, it really only works with the reference has a direct link to the PDF while the majority of citations use the DOI in the sciences. DOI traversal would be required
aroch on HN
Fails on some PDFs with a traceback
From 1 comment
Nice work Chris .. doesn't work on all my PDF's, though: ``` j@w1x8-dev:~/Documents/PDF Documents {} $ pdfx xhyve\ –\ Lightweight\ Virtualization\ on\ OS\ X\ Based\ on\ bhyve\ _\…
fit2rule on HN
Requests
Support DOI traversal to find PDFs
From 2 comments
While nice, it really only works with the reference has a direct link to the PDF while the majority of citations use the DOI in the sciences. DOI traversal would be required
aroch on HNDOIs are great for humans, unfortunately they'll take you to the publishers webpage and I don't know of a standard way of getting an actual PDF from a DOI. Maybe with PLOS, I…
IanCal on HN
JSON output from the CLI
From 1 comment
This is really neat! For work, I've found myself from time to time exploring the tech around PDFs. I find this tech strangely fascinating. It's like a shim on top of something…
adelevie on HN
Google Scholar integration
From 1 comment
Maybe consider a Google Scholar integration? Its search results include links to full-text pdf at times. Even not, extracted links to publisher websites could be helpful for a…
NeatoJn on HN
Kivy-based cross-platform GUI
From 1 comment
Glad if this tool/lib is useful to some. I'm happy to answer any and all questions! A Kivy [1] based cross-platform GUI would be a nice addition at some point. [1] http://kivy.org
metachris on HN
Questions
How does it handle XFA forms?
From 1 comment
How does this tool handle XFA forms? Or I should ask how does any tool besides Adobe LiveCycle designer handles XFA. I've been using Apache Tika with Apache Solr to index PDF…
prolepunk on HN
Alternatives named
exiftool and pdftotext
From 1 comment
Most PDF scientific articles sadly don't have good embedded metadata [0], so this & the DOI issue make this not very useful (at least for the journals I read). I also would have…
rossmounce on HN
Apache Tika with Solr
From 1 comment
How does this tool handle XFA forms? Or I should ask how does any tool besides Adobe LiveCycle designer handles XFA. I've been using Apache Tika with Apache Solr to index PDF…
prolepunk on HN
pdftk
From 2 comments
This is really neat! For work, I've found myself from time to time exploring the tech around PDFs. I find this tech strangely fascinating. It's like a shim on top of something…
adelevie on HNHow does this tool handle XFA forms? Or I should ask how does any tool besides Adobe LiveCycle designer handles XFA. I've been using Apache Tika with Apache Solr to index PDF…
prolepunk on HN
pdf_scraper
From 1 comment
Nice work Chris .. doesn't work on all my PDF's, though: ``` j@w1x8-dev:~/Documents/PDF Documents {} $ pdfx xhyve\ –\ Lightweight\ Virtualization\ on\ OS\ X\ Based\ on\ bhyve\ _\…
fit2rule on HN
Crossref API
From 1 comment
The standard way for getting the actual PDF from a DOI, when it's a Crossref DOI (which it probably is) is to use the full-text link, available in the CrossRef API. For DOI…
afandian on HN