embedding self-describing bibtex in dvi or pdf

[Peter Flynn]

If you want to do this, I would urge you to contact Peter Murray-Rust, 
whose work on extracting meaningful data from PDFs is well advanced.

Peter

On 29/10/2019 11:01, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:53:58AM +0100, Uwe Ziegenhagen wrote:
>>     Would something like attachfile help you?
>>     [http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/attachfile/attachfile.pdf]http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/attachfile/attachf
>>     ile.pdf
>>     You could simply attach the bib file.
> 
> Thnks, in fact attaching the bib file is the example they use :)
> Does anyone use this and what is the best way to extract it without
> user intervention? I guess ideally it would not be just a file but
> a set of arbitrary key-value pairs another utility could read like pdfinfo
> but if it is there and can be found without having to parse whole
> pdf file that is great too. Does this work for dvi or just pdf?
> 
> If commonly used, that fixes the bibtex search for a large class of documents.
> 
> 
>>     Uwe
>>
>>     Am Di., 29. Okt. 2019 um 10:33 Uhr schrieb Mike Marchywka <[mailto:marchywka at hotmail.com]marchywka at hotmail.com>:
>>
>>       Do these or other formats support this ?
>>       For the DVI I can make a special that could be discovered with a dvi
>>       interpretter or just a dumb file reader if it is unique enough. PDF I know
>>       has a lot of flexibility but not sure what exists for this or if there
>>       already is a well known generally accepted approach to put in
>>       machine readable citation info.
>>       I could imagine tex macro for self info fields but not sure I have ever
>>       seen one.  pdfinfo comes close for pdf, I guess if you could add arbitrary
>>       key-value pairs this would work . What existing tex would let me insert stuff
>>       here to read later for bibtex extraction?
>>       pdfinfo cases.pdf
>>       Title:
>>       Subject:
>>       Keywords:
>>       Author:
>>       Creator:        LaTeX with hyperref package
>>       Producer:       pdfTeX-1.40.16
>>       CreationDate:   Tue Oct 29 04:51:45 2019
>>       ModDate:        Tue Oct 29 04:51:45 2019
>>       Tagged:         no
>>       UserProperties: no
>>       Suspects:       no
>>       Form:           none
>>       JavaScript:     no
>>       Pages:          738
>>       Encrypted:      no
>>       Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
>>       Page rot:       0
>>       File size:      10873604 bytes
>>       Optimized:      no
>>       PDF version:    1.5
>>       Thanks.
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