Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley

Re:Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley by jofer on Monday April 08, 2013 @10:06PM (#5516053)

If you have lots of pdf's on your hard drive that you want to automatically extract metadata from (or organize), it's quite nice. It's easy to go from nested folders of pdf's --> Mendeley --> bibtex file, with a reasonably minimal amount of quality control.

I may be misremembering, but I don't think zotero is geared towards that?

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Re:Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley by jamesjporter on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @01:25AM (#5516584)

FWIW I prefer Zotero because I find downloading the pdf to actually be rather annoying. I just save the citation and double click on it to open the article in my browser whenever I need it. No metadata extraction necessary b/c Zotero pulls metadata from a doi or PMID (which is a quick copy and paste from the web) and unsurprisingly does it much better than Mendely pulls metadata from pdfs.

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Re:Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley by kanzure on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:58AM (#5516513)

> I don't think zotero is geared towards that

Zotero can import pdfs and figure out metadata, just like Mendeley, except without using OCR.

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Re:Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley by simonster on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @01:02AM (#5516520)

Zotero can extract metadata from PDFs, but at present it can't import folder structure. We're always happy to take patches: https://github.com/zotero/zotero

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