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I got a text document (word or pdf) which has at the end a lot of bibliographic references. Do you know about some approach/program that can export them to bibtex or endnote?

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it should be possible right? –  flow Nov 23 '09 at 8:11

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You are spoilt for choice. Google for "reference metadata extraction" and start clicking.

There's free software to extract from PDFs: see Metadata Extraction Tool.

If you have a Word 2007 file, that has (at last) a standardised representation of reflist entries, and EndNote can extract reliably from it.

If you just want to see the citations in an article, RefRuns is a useful tool, and has a simple web interface.

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After downloading the Metadata Extraction Tool, I discovered it captures the metadata a of particular object (file name, size, date, etc.); it does not look at the references inside that object and extract them.

The best solution I've found for scraping references from Word and Pdf files is cb2Bib.

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You may try WordToBibTeX from http://www.michaelmorin.info/source.html

I used it once to convert my old Word bibliography file to BibTeX. :)

The usual path of the word xml bibliography file is something like: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Bibliography\Sources.xml

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This works fairly well: http://www.snowelm.com/~t/doc/tips/makebib.en.html

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you are makino takaki, right? :) –  flow Feb 5 '11 at 10:13
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Link only answers are not welcome in Stack Overflow. –  hims056 Nov 30 '12 at 11:48

There is no really clever way of doing this. The metadata readers are rather problemtic because you have to check each reference for reading errors. If you have a large bibliography that need to be imported into EndNote or other bibliographic softwares, consider using the paid service at Refmaster.

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