[referencer] Referencer ignores PDF metadata ?

[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


Le 15/07/2011 13:00, referencer-request at icculus.org a écrit :
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> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:30:07 -0300
> From: Adrien ANDRE<adrien.andre.m at gmail.com>
> Subject: [referencer] Referencer ignores PDF metadata ?
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> 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
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:47:01 +0100
> From: John Spray<jcspray at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [referencer] Referencer ignores PDF metadata ?
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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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