What should I do if the metadata for one of my PDFs has been extracted incorrectly within Mendeley Desktop? - Mendeley Support Center. How does Mendeley's PDF metadata extraction feature work? - Quora. How well does Mendeley’s Metadata Extraction Work? | Making Tools for Researchers. Authors: Phil Gooch and Kris Jack Introduction One of the most used features at Mendeley is our metadata extraction tool. We’ve recently developed a new service that tries to automatically pull out the metadata from research article PDFs. This is currently used by the new Mendeley Web Library and iOS applications (Figure 1). We’re often asked how well it works so we thought we’d put this short post together to answer that question.
Figure 1. Steps in metadata extraction in Mendeley Library. The Problem Automated metadata extraction is one of those problems in AI that appears very easy to solve but is actually quite difficult. For example, the five articles in Figure 2 all have titles but in each case they appear in different positions, are surrounded by different text and are in different fonts. Figure 2: Five Articles with Different Layouts. At Mendeley, we have been working on building a tool that can automatically extract metadata from research articles.
How well does the Solution Work?