Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.news-service.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: Johannes Held Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Pdf Parsing Challenge Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:21:10 +0200 Lines: 11 Message-ID: <93k25cFal0U1@mid.dfncis.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de s+5qAn8HMCHX4/Dw+RMssQUikqpIr/M8jNGfeiaw27Mg6C User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:4755 Do you need that for an own application or do you want to build up a literature database on your own? For the latter, you could try [Mendeley][1]. That's a tool (web-based & desktop-based) to manage your research literature. It can parse PDF, and much more. Once parsed, you can parse the generated bibtex-file … [1]: http://www.mendeley.com -- Gruß, Johannes