DOI Check

1. Overview and Context

This procedure extractschecks the DOIsDOI extracted from a PDF byagainst meansthe of a custom Python script and returns a CSV file.PDF.

2. Triggers

The execution of this procedure is usually triggered by

• Book Publication

3. Steps to Be Performed

• SaveOpen athe copyCSV offile generated by the DOI Extraction Script toprocedure. yourThe hardfile drivecontains asa doiextract.pycolumn with ordinals and a column with DOIs.
• MoveThe first line will contain the DOI of the publication itself. Remove the DOI number and keep the empty place for the first DOI missed by the script (see below).
• Search the PDF for the string DOI: and compare each instance against the CSV file.
• The DOI script will have generated the following errors:
  • DOIs cut with a line break after a slash /: these are not recognized and should be added manually with the correct ordinal.
  • DOIs cut with a line break after a period .: these are only recognized up to the sameperiod, folderthe rest should be added the entry.
  • OpenDOIs at the end of a page: the script filewill in a code editor
  • Change pdf_path torecognize the filepage namenumber as part of the PDFDOI, (incl.and .pdf)will have to be removed.
• Open a command line tool like Terminal
• Navigate toOnce the folder containing the script and the PDF
• Run python3 doiextract.py
• The script will generate a CSV file ofhas been corrected make sure each DOI is correctly numbered and there are no empty lines or spaces.
• Save the PDFCSV file suffixed with _dois.csvfile.

4. Additional Information

5. Document Control

Document ID	PRO-003004
Document Owner	Vincent
Version	1.0
Last Date of Change	October 2, 2025
Next Review Due Date
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