On Jun 22, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > >> On Jun 22, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 21, 2007, at 23:08, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: >>> >>>> On Jun 22, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: >>>>> I just found out that I could use iTunes for managing PDFs. It >>>>> allows >>>> me to do a fast search on them (Genre: Papers; Artist: Author-Name; >>>> Title: Paper-name; Comments: Keywords) and they are organized in >>>> one >>>> place (iTunes-Music-library) which gets backed up regularly. >>> >>> I'm guessing it doesn't allow you to search by content, though? It >>> really depends on what you need. >> >> Most of the "interesting" stuff is non-OCR-JSTOR-stuff anyway -- I >> gave up the illusion to search the content of my pdfs (and stuff in >> iTunes can be handled by Spotlight). Some kind of tagging and not >> thinking about the managing in the file-system is more important to >> me. >> >> Niels > > All of JSTOR is now OCRed. If you have the permanent URLs in > BibDesk's URL field, you can use my JSTOR Download PDF script to grab > the new versions, which are also smaller. (Warning: They are > compressed with JBIG2, which Apple's PDFKit is slow at rendering) > > http://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Projects/Citation/BibDesk/ > > Note that the script won't work through a proxy, only when you have > direct campus access.
Thx for the script and the note the JSTOR-stuff is now OCRed Niels ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
