Idea in extracting the title of an article?

be grateful. without threads like this there would be no ET

 

Here is a crude method that works sometimes:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]
then
    echo 1>&2 "Usage: $0 file.pdf
    finds the pdf file's title, and outputs it to the standard output"
    exit 1
fi

pdftotext -layout "${1}" - |
perl -n -e 'use warnings; use strict;
our $processingTitle; our @title;
my $l = $_;
$l =~ s/^\f//; # remove feeds
if ( $processingTitle )
{
    if ( $l =~ /^\s+$/ )
    {
        last;
    }

    my ( $parts ) = $l =~ /^\s*(\S.+)/;
    $parts =~ s/\s+$//;
    push (@title, $parts);
}
elsif ( $l =~ /^\s*(\S.+)/ )
{
    $processingTitle = 1;
    my $parts = $1;
    $parts =~ s/\s+$//;
    push (@title, $parts);
}
END {
if ( scalar(@title) == 0 )
{
    print "NO TITLE FOUND\n";
}
else
{
    print join(" ", @title), "\n";
}
}'

For example, assuming the environment has bash, pdftotext, and perl:
https://assets.super.so/e46b77e7-ee...iles/2f2fc428-925c-4041-9f6d-bc387d904820.pdf

Code:

$ findpdftitle 2f2fc428-925c-4041-9f6d-bc387d904820.pdf
Commodity Option Implied Volatilities and the Expected Futures Returns

 

For the archives :

 

You either:

1. Lost money
2. Got cheated on
3. Off your meds
4. All the above..

 

And what if he has no clue of Linux/Unix, bash ?

 

I think he was "high", ie. doped, was under the influence of drugs, and alcohol...

 

Until some new nick with 3 posts and 0 likes shows up and open up a new thread asking "so, I have a friend that needs coding help" lol

 

When saving such PDF downloads, I always also save the web page where I found it.
Web pages of course have a filename as well, and this one mostly is a real title, not something cyptic like 194567.pdf .
Now, later when I watch the directory listing sorted by datetime, I can see what the accompanying html doc was, and also open it in the browser, and so find out what the PDF is about, incl. title etc. and wherefrom I did download it...

 

Baron should ban the poster and at the bare minimum, we all should block him.

 

It’s weird, he seemed like a normal guy, before. The world is changing