Extracting data from the clipboard

Clipboard contents is processed according to the following rules:

• Perform external, user-defined preparsing on input stream. See Configuring Clipboard.

• Perform user-defined substitutions on input stream. See Configuring Clipboard.

• Check if input stream is already a BibTeX entry. If so, process entry.

• Check if input stream is a PubMed XML or Medline entry. If so, process entry.

• Preprocess author names: PI JOAN III -> Pi III, J. (care of name prefixes, suffixes, and removal of ambiguities).

If otherwise,

• Extract DOI
  (DOI, URL and FILE/PDF are preprocessed, performed before the automatic recognition takes place.)

• Extract URL

• Remove leading and trailing white spaces, TABs and CRs.

• "\r\n", "\n" and/or "\r" replaced by the line indicator tag "<NewLineN>".

• Replace "\t" and ten or more consecutive "\s" by the tabular tag "<TabN>".

• Simplify White Spaces

• Start the automatic recognition engine.

If the automatic recognition engine fails, optionally, a heuristic guessing will be performed. See also Field Recognition Rules and Reading and writing bibliographic metadata.