Extract bibliographic information in BibTeX format from PDF from jstor.org

jstorPDFtoBibTeX.sh

#!/bin/sh
# jstorPDFtoBibTeX
# requires pdftotext, tag
# has about a 85% success rate in my experience

header="@article{"
footer="}\n\n"
biblio=""

for filename in "$@"
do 
	# get the text
	textRef=$(/usr/local/bin/pdftotext "$filename" - | grep "Author(s):")
	tempcitekey="tempcitekey,\n" # we'll let BibDesk set up the actual cite keys

	# extract the bibliographical details
	author="\tAuthor = {"$(echo "$textRef" | sed 's/ Source.*//' | sed 's/.*Author(s): //')"},\n"
	title="\tTitle = {"$(echo "$textRef" | sed 's/ Author.*//')"},\n"
	journal="\tJournal = {"$(echo "$textRef" | sed 's/.*Source: //' | sed 's/,.*//')"},\n"
	volume="\tVolume = {"$(echo "$textRef" | sed 's/.*Vol. //' | sed 's/,.*//')"},\n"
	number="\tNumber = {"$(echo "$textRef" | sed 's/.*No. //' | sed 's/ .*//')"},\n"
	year="\tYear = {"$(grep -o "[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])," <<<$textRef | sed 's/),//')"},\n"
	pages="\tPages = {"$(echo "$textRef" | sed 's/.*pp. //' | sed 's/ .*//')"},\n"

 # add any OS X tags in the file to the BibTeX record as keywords
	keywords="\tKeywords = {"$(tag -N "$filename")"},\n"
#	annote="Annote = {$filename},\n"

	bdskurl="\tBdsk-Url-1 = {"$(echo "$textRef" | sed 's/.*Stable URL: //' | sed 's/ .*//')"}\n"
	biblio=$biblio$header$tempcitekey$author$year$title$journal$volume$number$pages$keywords$bdskurl$footer
done

echo $biblio