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quick'n'dirty extraction of abstracts from a list of pdfs on the commandline
for i in *.pdf ; do pdftotext "$i" - | perl -F/\\n\\n/ -0 -lane 'BEGIN { $FILE=shift @ARGV} print "$FILE:\t$_" for grep { $_ !~ /^\s*$/ } map { s/\n/ /g; $_ } grep { /^abstract/i } @F' "$i"; done
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