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Extract citations from a PDF and generate a validated .bib file. Use when the user asks to extract citations from a PDF and generate a validated .bib file. Reads the PDF, identifies referenced works, constructs BibTeX entries, and verifies metadata.

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# Bibliography Parser — PDF to .bib

**LIBRARY-FIRST RULE: ALWAYS check Paperpile membership by DOI (`paperpile lookup-by-doi`) for each parsed reference BEFORE generating new BibTeX entries.** Topic/title `search-library` is a lossy discovery aid, NOT a membership test — never tag a reference `NEW` off a title-search miss. Reuse existing library entries instead of constructing from scratch. Enforced in Phase 2.3 per [`shared/reference-resolution.md`](../shared/reference-resolution.md) § Membership Check.

**Goal:** given a PDF file, extract all cited references and produce a clean, validated `.bib` file.

## When to Use

- You have a PDF (paper, report, thesis) and need a `.bib` file for its references
- Importing references from a paper that doesn't have a companion `.bib` file
- Reconstructing a bibliography from a document with embedded `\begin{thebibliography}` or numbered references
- Converting a reference list from any format into BibTeX

## When NOT to Use
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