quick and dirty proof of concept for extracting citation data from downloaded hein files
basically just takes the first page of the pdf and extracts bits of citation data from that big list of cites that hein offers, based on what format is most convenient for a given piece of data
currently just extracts list of authors, pages, and publication date and prints them from a single article.
usage in current form: get into an environment with pypdf2 available using your preferred method (this repo is set up for pipenv), and then python3 extract_cite.py ARTICLE_FILENAME
TODO: extract the rest of the main citation data (journal name, article title, volume, issue) and dump into some convenient zotero readable format (ris, bibtex, etc.)
secondary TODO: put in a decent cli interface to just loop over a folder of PDFs, pick out the hein ones, and do it
tertiary TODO: hook into zotero API to directly add to library
quarternary TODO: rewrite in javascript (I think that's the language they're in?) and offer as PR to their automated article parser, which currently fails at handling hein files most of the time