bibliographic data

Preview of Docear 1.1 with PDF Metadata Retrieval from Google Scholar

March 27th, 2014 by Joeran [Docear]

Thanks to all the generous donors, our student Christoph could work on an improved PDF metadata retrieval for Docear, and today it’s time to present the first preview. The new Docear 1.1 (preview) is able to extract the title of a PDF and fetch appropriate metadata from Google Scholar. Whenever you select a PDF in […]

Call for donation was successful: 1800 Euros donated to improve Docear’s PDF metadata retrieval function

February 26th, 2014 by Joeran [Docear]

One month ago, we started a call for donation and asked our users for money so we could pay our student Christoph to improve Docear’s PDF metadata retrieval. We asked for 1800 Euros (~2500 US$) and today we achieved our goal. We would like to thank all donors who made this possible. We […]

Now 50 instead of 15 free requests per day for bibliographic data

January 25th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear]

Just a quick notice: Since a while Docear can automatically retrieve bibliographic information for PDF files. So far, only 15 requests per day per users were possible. We increased this limit to 50. If you have not yet tried this feature, do it, it saves a lot of time!

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Docear Beta 7 with PDF Metadata Extraction

November 21st, 2012 by Joeran [Docear]

Beta 7 is out and has one major new feature: (semi-)automatic extraction of bibliographic metadata from PDF files. That means, when creating a new reference, you don’t have to type everything manually but bibliographic information such as title, author, year, journal, etc. is all provided to you automatically. Here is how it works: Do a […]