Aw: Ideas for building a system that parses medical research publications/articles

> I am imagining a system that can parse papers from various sources
> (web/files/etc) and in various formats (text, pdf, etc) and can store
> metadata for this paper ,some kind of global ID if applicable, authors,
> areas of research, whether the paper is "new", "highlighted",
> "historical", type

Those three categories won't help much. I'm sure though you had
something specific in mind with them ?

Karsten