Extract metadata from pdf file properties

masabbat
Hi,

can Zotero import metadata (eg. title of the document, author, and object) from pdf document properties ?

thanks
  • adamsmith
    Zotero can retrieve PDF metadata, but it does so based on internet searches, not on document properties.
    http://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata

    Using document properties is, at this point, not a terribly worthwhile strategy. There's just too much nonsense in the XMP tags of PDFs.
  • masabbat
    Agree, however, internet searches are good for peer reviewed articles (google scholar), but for more general documents, I end up setting properties manually, while they are already tidily written in the tags of PDFs.

    Eg. : http://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d309.pdf

    I think a separate function could help in organizing a more general library
  • adamsmith
    yeah, but as I say--there's just too much nonsense in XMP tags (the name of the admin assistance who compiled the doc as "author" and the like) for this to be a useful strategy across the board and Zotero devs don't really believe in making these things hyper-customizable.

    It's obviously technically doable, people could even write a plugin for it, but I don't think it's going happen any time soon from the Zotero side.
  • masabbat
    thanks
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