GitHub - jnickg/Acamedia: Acamedia is a simple library manager, like Windows Media Player for your academic life. It supports importing a large collection of PDFs at once, and allows you to conveniently manage them through a simple, drag and drop interface.

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Acamedia is a simple library manager, like Windows Media Player for your academic life. It supports importing a large collection of PDFs at once, and allows you to conveniently manage them through a simple, drag and drop interface.

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Acamedia

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Acamedia is the media manager for your academic life.

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Acamedia has the following capabilities:

*Collect your academic article PDFs into one consolidated library
*Store metadata for each document, for easy searching and retrieval
	*Data needed for academic citations
	*In-document data, such as academic keywords
	*User-created data, such as tagging, for personalized keywording
*Manually organize your documents by project, subject, etc.
*Store your folders inside your academic filing cabinet
	*Import new documents into your cabinet
	*Automatically load one or many cabinets

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Acamedia will have the following capabilities:

*Automatic metadata—Acamedia will interact with the WorldCat search API
	*fetch metadata for new documents
	*save it into your PDF file for immediate retrieval, next time you load
	*check existing document data
*Hover tags—see metadata for your document without even opening it
*TeX-formatted citations which can easily be changed to APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.
*Assemble documents for use in a project
	*Batch print them
	*Generate a citation page for all documents
	*Save projects as new folders for easy retrieval
*Different file formats
	*Store your professors' syllabi and assignment documents
	*Store images, audio, or video files

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Acamedia may someday get the following capabilities:

*Scan readable-text PDFs to automatically gather metadata
*Batch search your text-enabled PDFs
*Scan readable-text PDFs' citations pages to check if a new article references any articles in your library

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Created by jnickg