v1.5

Main changes

• The library textract has been removed from the required dependencies because it often creates problems during installation (due to conflicts between library versions),
  and because it generally requires installing many other dependencies which are not needed by pdf2doi. The user can still decide to install textract==1.6.4 if desired.
  pdf2doi will use textract only if it is installed.
• pdf2doi now stores any found identifier into a tag called /pdf2doi_identifier (previously was /identifier).

Added

• The library pdfminer is now directly used by pdf2doi to extract the text from a pdf file (instead of doing it indirectly via textract)
• An additional method to find the title of a pdf file, based on the library pymupdf, has been added .
• [Issue https://github.com//issues/21]: When an arXiv ID is found, a corresponding DOI is also returned when available. This could be either the standard arXiv DOI (see also here),
  or the DOI of the corresponding journal publication. This behavior can be disabled by adding the optional command -no_arxiv2doi to the pdf2doi invocation.
• [Issue https://github.com//issues/22]: The function get_pdf_text (finders.py) has been modified to allow the library PyPDF2 to extract also the text of any annotation/comment present in the pdf file.

Fixed

• Potential titles of the papers were often not correctly found, because the function find_possible_titles() (finders.py) would mistakenly disregard all the results if one of the three methods (pdftitle, PyPDF2, filename) generated an error.
• Fixed bug in the function add_metadata() (finders.py). In previous versions, some of the pre-existing metadata were not preserved when a new one was added (commit).

v1.4

Main improvements (see also merge from #20)

• Check for server error status codes when validating on dx.doi.org as 504 errors can occur
• When performing google searches, it looks for DOIs also in the URLs.
  • Support any URL with a matching DOI and the doi keyword in the URL.
• Attempt to strip extensions from filenames doi10.111/1111.pdf will fail to locate the doi as 10.111/1111.pdf is a valid, if uncommon DOI.
• "Standardise" DOIs to handle loose matches e.g. case variations, or trailing punctuation.

Minor code changes (see also merge from #20)

• Moved regex patterns to patterns.py + add pytest tests for common DOI patterns
• Update to use logger.exception which provides tracebacks on errors.
• Moved code to add the '/identifier' tag to a general function add_metadata() in finders.py

v1.3

Fixed

• Object files were not closed after being opened (issue #17).
• Make sure that the version 2.0.0 of pypdf2 is used, since the text extracted with newer versions occasionally messes up some DOI.

v1.2

Added

• Print explicit error when target path is not a valid file or directory (when used via CLI).

Fixed

• Bug due to some functions returning None instead of an empty list (issue #15).
• Fixed typo at line 134 of main.py ('/identfier' -> '/identifier')

v1.1

• Improved the internal behavior of some functions. The input argument of the function pdf2doi.pdf2doi_singlefile can now be either a string (with a relative o absolute path to the file to process) or a file object, open elsewhere in the code. The first input argument of all the "finder" functions now must be a file object (open elsewhere) and not a string with the file path.
• Cleaned up dependencies, removed version constraints that are not anymore necessary

v1.0.1

• Improved the look-up of DOIs and Arxiv IDs in a text.
  In previous versions, for each possible regexp identifying a DOI or Arxiv ID, the search would only look for the first occurrence of a potential DOI or Arxiv ID in the text. Now instead it searches for all possible results.

v1.0

-Re-organized all code
-Moved all BibTeX-related stuff to a new package pdf2bib
-Fixed minor bugs in previous version

v0.6

Main bugs fixed:

• When parsing the author field of a bibtex entry, a problem occurred if an author name contained the substring "and".
• Version 0.5 was not compatible with Mac systems because the library winreg was imported without first checking the operating system (issue #5).
• Files with extension ".PDF" (capital case) were not recognized as valid pdf files.
• An error occurred when sanitizing text strings that contained more than one latex code.

v0.5

• Fixed several bugs regarding the generation of bibtex entries;
• Improved parsing of latex code in bibtex;
• Added right-click context menu functionalities (for Windows);

v0.4

Initial stable release.

Can also be installed via

pip install pdf2doi