Use this handy script to extract citations from your PDF files
In order to run the test: Do these only the FIRST time:
- Make sure you have Python 2x installed
- Make sure you have the "refextract" library installed (install by opening terminal and typing: "pip install pyextract" NO QUOTES)
Do these every time you need to extract citations from a PDF document:
- Add a selection of PDFs to the folder "PDFS_to_PROCESS" located in the root of this project
- Open your TERMINAL from the ROOT/MAIN folder of this project
- In the TERMINAL write: python parse.py
- Wait for the results
- Copy the contents of "drop_these_into_anystyledotio.txt"
- In your browser visit "https://anystyle.io/"
- Paste what you copied in step 6 into the box labelled, "Paste your references here"
- Click parse
- Once your job is completed scroll down and select from: BibText, CiteProc/JSON, XML DONE!