TypeError: coercing to Unicode about refextract

[michamos]

@darjusp I had a quick look at your PDFs, and would not expect refextract to work well for your purposes, as it needs to be taught what is a journal title. It ships with a list of journals relevant for High Energy Physics in https://github.com/inspirehep/refextract/blob/master/refextract/references/kbs/journal-titles.kb, but you would need to provide your own. I would suggest trying Grobid instead, which should be more flexible.

[jacquerie]

From the stacktrace it looks like CFG_PATH_PDFTOTEXT is None in your installation, which means that

refextract/refextract/references/config.py

Line 41 in 4e14d6c

CFG_PATH_PDFTOTEXT = os.environ.get('CFG_PATH_PDFTOTEXT', which('pdftotext'))

did return None. Do you have pdftotext installed on your system?

[darjusp]

That's a good point. Actually i didn't have, and i tried to install and now ran into:
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 which i believe has nothing to do with refextract. Actually after all day of trying to install the package i couldn't :) And i just would like to try it, to see what outcome it produces on my data.
Can some nice person try to upload to refextact these files and post to me the result?
https://mega.nz/#!lCAxQS4J!WQiiSFvrNiBMF1IqoNamlDSWakY7211pIN0xw48Ob9E
I just would like to check the outcome of the tool.

[darjusp]

Michamos thanks a lot, this save lot of my time.
And definitely will try Grobid

[michamos]

@darjusp 👍 I will close this issue then.