Export abstract from text

Dear Jabref developers and contributors,
I always prefer to fill the ‘abstract’ field in Jabref, so I can easily remember what a paper is about.
However, is a tedious job to copy and paste it every single time, so most of the time I omit that step.
It would be great, if a process could run on the text file, export the abstract, and put it automatically in the proper field.

I tried to build a quick-and-dirty tool in Python to do that job, but it is not always straightforward process.

[Assumption: I keep a copy of a document’s text in my computer. I think if the document is not stored on the local machine, extraction process can’t happen.]


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Hello,

this is an interesting thing. I know that problem, too.
Sometimes, some websites allow you to export the abstract in the bibtex, too. (ACM and IEEE at laest I tink)

I looked a bit around and it could be possible to get that data from CrossRef, which we already use for “Get BibTex Data from DOI”.

https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc/issues/98#issuecomment-227132063

Btw, if you are interested in getting abstract automatically, you could have a look at CrossRefs pdfextracter
http://labs.crossref.org/pdfextract/