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I've been using a self hosted instance of I, Librarian. If it does find the DOI number in the PDF it will query a database to get the metadata. It does a pretty good job so long as the correct DOI number is somewhere in the PDF. You can also batch import PDFs.

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Ok had to look this up and thanks to the generic name it took a bit. Here [0] the link for everyone who comes after me. It's a simple(?) php based webservice.

[0] https://github.com/mkucej/i-librarian-free

Thank you for the tip. Will check it out now (child comment linked directly)

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