August 14th, 2015 by Joeran [Docear]Docear 1.2 Beta is now available and has two major improvements:
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
October 22nd, 2012 by Joeran [Docear]It’s a while ago that we started crawling the Web for academic PDFs to index them and use them for Docear’s research paper recommender system. Meanwhile, we have collected quite a few PDFs. Unfortunately, in a foreseeable future, our servers’ disks will be full and the load of our servers is too high already (that’s […]
May 22nd, 2012 by Joeran [Docear]Maybe the most disturbing thing about Docear is the lack of a proper PDF reader that creates comments, bookmarks and highlighted text that can be imported by Docear and that runs on all operating systems. Personally, I use Foxit Reader and create bookmarks to remember important statements but it can’t highlight text properly. PDF XChange […]
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