Enable Citoid to generate citation from a PDF link
Problem: Citoid doesn't solve the url when the link is a PDF document, giving an error message.
Proposed solution: Enable citoid to get the metadata from the PDF and fill the fields required.
Who would benefit: All editors, especially the users of the VisualEditor.
More comments: As user Mvolz commented, maybe it is tricky to automatically assign which kind of cite corresponds to the file (journal, book, etc). If the metadata doesn't provide this information, a solution could be to let the user select the appropriate one.
The problem with PDFs is that there is indeed basically no standard for metadata. I don't think this goal is realistic. --Izno (talk) 02:33, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rather than argued there MAY be a metadata section in any PDF which might be disclosed and which might contain one of known formats like RDF or DublinCore or other (usually XML). Just try and enjoy if retrieved. --PerfektesChaos (talk) 11:36, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per PerfektesChaos, this isn't supposed to get the title for every PDF out there. Just get some of the more common title metadata formats sorted and leave the others alone. Even if it's only gets 20-30% or so, it's still better than the current situation.Mako001 (talk) 03:49, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]