pdf to bibtex conversion appears to be related to attempts to recover .bibtex document from previously exported PDF document, something that might be problematic. Some utilities for this seem to exist, but most work poorly or not at all. But tools like cb2Bib might be a viable option for this.
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Conversion of pdf file format to bibtex file format beta
Search for pdf to bibtex converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Adobe Portable document format to BibTeX document.
We have found one software suitable in our database for this conversion.
Multiplatform software 
- convert pdf to bibtex on any platform
JabRef
A reference management software
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from pdf file | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
to bibtex file | No | Yes | Yes | bibtex editor | Yes | No | No | No |
The table with program actions contains information about what each program is capable of doing with their files. This may be a good pointer for further searches for certain file conversions and help you find the converter you are looking for if our search result is insufficient for you. However, it is far from perfect and may sometimes show results which are not really usable because of the nature of the software handles the files. So a conversion that appears as possible, just because of matched actions, may in fact not be possible.
Additional links: Open pdf file, Open bibtex file
A pdf file extension is mainly used for Adobe Portable document format, commonly referred to as PDF. All programs that create some sort of documents or projects offer the possibility to export their format to PDF format. A free PDF viewer (Adobe Reader) is available for download from Adobe website.
BIBTEX
Files with bibtex extension can be most typically found as bibliographic databases from BibTeX reference management software.
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