[referencer] Referencer ignores PDF metadata ?

[Adrien ANDRE]

Hi all,

i was surprised noticing Referencer doesn't use PDF metadata,
that one can easily dump using these two linux commands, for example :

pdfinfo paper.pdf
pdftk paper.pdf dump_data

Is this functionality in development ? Did i miss something ?

Thanks in advance,

Adrien

[John Spray]

In my experience, hardly any PDFs in the wild have useful metadata. Author
is frequently set to the name of the program that generated the PDF.

Post by Adrien ANDRE
Hi all,
i was surprised noticing Referencer doesn't use PDF metadata,
pdfinfo paper.pdf
pdftk paper.pdf dump_data
Is this functionality in development ? Did i miss something ?
Thanks in advance,
Adrien
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[Adrien ANDRE]

Too bad these informations aren't taken into account, especially when
information fields remain empty after the Referencer lookup.

Not to mention that the special PDF metadata 'Producer' exists to store
this program name.


Adrien

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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:30:07 -0300
From: Adrien ANDRE<adrien.andre.m at gmail.com>
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Hi all,
i was surprised noticing Referencer doesn't use PDF metadata,
pdfinfo paper.pdf
pdftk paper.pdf dump_data
Is this functionality in development ? Did i miss something ?
Thanks in advance,
Adrien
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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:47:01 +0100
From: John Spray<jcspray at gmail.com>
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In my experience, hardly any PDFs in the wild have useful metadata. Author
is frequently set to the name of the program that generated the PDF.
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