Brian,

Is yours an AppleScript script? I think I want to do the same thing that
your script does but since I do not know AppleScript I was planning to
create a python script that generates the .bib file. Is your script
available to the community?

Thanks,

-Arrigo

On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 11:07 AM Brian Helenbrook <bhele...@clarkson.edu>
wrote:

> I’m not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but I have a script that
> imports a folder of pdf files then grabs the bibliographic information from
> google scholar for each file
>
> Le 3 déc. 2021 à 4:53 PM, Arrigo Benedetti <arrigo.benede...@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
> 
> I want to write a python script that will process a large number of PDF
> files, extract the relevant information like DOI, etc and create a bibtex
> archive so I can use BibDesk. I understand that the path to the PDF is
> stored in the bdsk-file-1 and I was able to decode it with the python code
> discussed at https://inkdroid.org/2020/09/03/bibdesk-and-zotero/
> The decoded plist has the field: 'relativePath', 'aliasData' where
> relativePath is obviously the relative path to the PDF file. I'm wondering
> if I should create the aliasData field and what should I put there. I hope
> that it's clear what I want to do: to create a bibtex file that BibDesk
> will be able to read and work on starting from a large number of PDF files.
> I see this for the most part a one time operation just to avoid the manual
> creation of thousands of entries with BibDesk. I'm planning to post the
> code to github when this project is completed.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> -Arrigo
>
>
>
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