Proof of concept automatic metadata retrieval based on file fingerprinting
Channel: Stian Håklev
Date: 2012-02-17

This is a proof-of-concept of a simple database connecting SHA-2 file hashes of PDFs, and their BibTeX metadata (which can be contributed by scanning users BibDesk databases), which is available through a simple web API (not yet publicly available). It then shows a small Ruby script which uses this public API to retrieve meta-data for PDFs added to BibDesk.

See http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:start