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Ross Mounce
Personal blog · rossmounce.co.uksciencewriting
Ross Mounce's personal blog at rossmounce.co.uk covers science and writing. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's post on why PDF metadata is poor, using it to support the point that scientific PDFs often lack good embedded metadata, which limits PDF tools.
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What Hacker News says?
Most PDF scientific articles sadly don't have good embedded metadata [0], so this & the DOI issue make this not very useful (at least for the journals I read). I also would have implemented this with a simpler shell script calling exiftool[1] and pdftotext[2], but hey; fun to have a python-based implementation :) [0] http://rossmounce.co.uk/2012/12/31/pdf-metadata-why-so-poor/ [1] http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil…
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