From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:09:21 +0100

Utopia Documents is a novel tool for interacting with the scientific
literature.  Developed in 2009, it is a free PDF reader that can
connect the static content of scientific articles to the dynamic world
of online content.

This week Utopia will be released as an open source project.  It will
also become the platform for a new crowdsourcing tool called Lazarus.
With Lazarus, it is hoped to recover large swathes of the legacy data
currently imprisoned in the charts, tables, diagrams and free-text of
life science papers published in PDF files.  This information will
then be made available as an open access database.

The developer of Utopia is computer scientist Steve Pettifer,
currently based at the University of Manchester.

An interview with Steve Pettifer can be read here:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/interview-with-steve-pettifer-computer.html