autobib
This is a simple but time saving script that automatically creates a bibxtex bibliography from from your scientific papers, books or similar documents in pdf format. Parses the pdf-files in the given path and searches google scholar for bibtex info and creates a bibtex.bib file.
Dependencies
- python
- beautifulsoup
- pdftotext
Debian/Ubuntu install depedencies:
To install depenencies on Debian and Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install poppler-utils python-beautifulsoup
Running
To run the program
$ python autobib.py <path to your pdf's>
Installing
To install autobib globally you need to run the setup script
$ sudo python setup.py install
Once installed, run the program like this:
$ autobib <path to your pdf's>
Author
Joacim Alvergren [email protected]