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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jan 21, 2011 at 08:54 AM

@Dr Andus

Yes, it’s time to take the topic serious because it’s a nightmare…

What about using the Normfall Manager for pdf management?
http://www.normfall.de/products-en/normfall-manager/overview.html

Or maybe UltraRecall?
http://www.kinook.com/UltraRecall/

Zotero is an option, too:
http://www.zotero.org/

Last but not least: Mendeley
http://www.mendeley.com/

Dominik

Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM

critStock wrote:
>Has either of you tried working with pdfs within
>Citavi, which is newly available in English.

Thank you David, I had a look at Citavi yesterday and it is truly very impressive. I use EndNote X4 at the moment but I have never been happy with it (too feature-poor and too expensive), especially after I had to buy a brand new licence when I upgraded to Windows 7. I’ve looked at Zotero and Mendeley in the past, and while they’re fine, there weren’t sufficiently compelling reasons to switch. However, if it is not too painful to switch from EndNote, I will seriously consider Citavi because as you say they managed to integrate some tasks that otherwise would require 3 or 4 different software (such as a browser, PDF viewer and note-taking and coding software). Now if there was an iPad or Android version of it, that would be the ultimate…

Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 21, 2011 at 05:37 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>In this age of wikinomics the PDF seems like steam powered technology at best.
>However, I assume that it has flourished largely due to its convenience for
>intellectual rights management. That is probably the reason that major academic
>publishing houses support it, so that one can find most papers in PDF format in the
>first place.
>

Exactly! And there is a certain irony in its lack of convenience for academics, who are, after all, the ones who produce the intellectual property.

Derek

Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 21, 2011 at 05:48 PM

@critStock,

Thanks for the reminder about this software. I’ll take a closer look when I’ve finished my current project. Anything that renders a basically unfriendly format more usable is welcome. Currently I use Zoot (v5, not v6) for handling pdfs.

Derek

Posted by JJSlote
Jan 22, 2011 at 02:53 AM

You might take a look also at Qiqqa, which is a reference manager built around PDFs. It offers full-text search and text export, using a built-in OCR if necessary.

Jerome

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