Hi, Danielle,

Have you taken a look at https://text2bib.economics.utoronto.ca/ ? If it
works for you, that's likely to be one of the easiest methods to convert
the list into structured data.

Best,
Julia

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Julia Bauder
Social Studies and Data Services Librarian
Director, Data Analysis and Social Inquiry Lab
Grinnell College Libraries
1111 6th Ave.
Grinnell, IA 50112

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 1:40 PM Danielle Reay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have a faculty member looking to create a dataset from an annotated
> bibliography she compiled. Right now it exists as a word file and as a pdf.
> The entries are relatively structured with a citation and an abstract, but
> the document is about 150 pages long with multiple entries per page. Rather
> than manually copy and paste everything to create the spreadsheet/csv, I
> wanted to ask for suggestions or approaches to doing this by either
> scraping or extracting structured data from the pdf. Thanks very much in
> advance!
>
> Danielle Reay
>
> Digital Scholarship Technology Manager
> Drew University
>