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2021 Update for Docear’s “Google Scholar Parser” Library to Fetch Metadata for PDF files

May 10th, 2021 by Joeran [Docear]

Our reference management software Docear has not been actively developed for a few years, and recently, the add-on to fetch metadata from Google Scholar stopped working.

Fortunately, one of our users (Li Yang) adjusted Docear’s Google Scholar Parser, and now everything works as usual. However, we have not yet integrated the function into […]

Update for Docear’s “Google Scholar Parser” Library to Fetch Metadata for PDF files

October 5th, 2017 by Joeran [Docear]

Google Scholar recently changed its layout, and as a consequence, Docear couldn’t fetch metadata anymore from Google Scholar for PDF files. Fortunately, one of our users (“Silberzwiebel”) adjusted Docear’s Google Scholar Parser, and now everything works as usual. However, we have not yet integrated the function into the main version of Docear. This means, even […]

Docear 1.2 Stable: PDF Metadata Improvements & Faster Monitoring

December 2nd, 2015 by Joeran [Docear]

After releasing the Beta some weeks ago, we made some minor adjustments, and consider the current version 1.2 as stable. There are two major improvements and two bad news:

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Docear 1.2 Beta Release: PDF Metadata Improvements & New Add-On to Import ALL Highlighted text

August 14th, 2015 by Joeran [Docear]

Docear 1.2 Beta is now available and has two major improvements:

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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: (Automatic) PDF Metadata Extraction and Renaming

January 23rd, 2014 by Joeran [Docear]

Done! We’ve got all the money we need, thank you very much!!!!!!!! Read on here…

One of Docear’s biggest disadvantages, compared to other reference managers, is the rather poor PDF metadata extraction capability. As such, it is no surprise that the second most popular feature request is to add decent PDF metadata extraction […]