DOI Extraction

1. Overview and Context

This procedure extracts the DOIs from a PDF by means of a custom Python script and returns a CSV file.

2. Triggers

The execution of this procedure is usually triggered by

• Book Publication

3. Steps to Be Performed

• Save a copy of the DOI Extraction Script to your hard drive as doiextract.py
• Move the PDF to the same folder
• Open the script file in a code editor
• Change pdf_path to the file name of the PDF (incl. .pdf)
• Open a command line tool like Terminal
• Navigate to the folder containing the script and the PDF
• Run python3 doiextract.py
• The script will generate a CSV file of the PDF file suffixed with _dois.csv

4. Additional Information

5. Document Control