Minimal Paper Manager

What is this ?

• Extract titles and abstracts from papers
• Save extracted information as catalog csv file

You can manage your collected papers with this catalog file.

How to use

Preparation

1. Install required packages

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt
   

2. Put your all papers in a folder

   sample_papers
   │   1512.03385.pdf
   │
   └───Transformer
   │   │   1706.03762.pdf
   │
   └───GAN
       │   1406.2661.pdf
   

   You can place papers into subfolders.

Make catalog

$ python make_catalog.py YOUR_PAPERS_ROOT_DIRECTORY

In the example above, you will run

$ python make_catalog.py sample_papers

You'll get a following catalog csv.

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> df = pd.read_csv("catalog.csv")
>>> df.head()
         filename      dirpath                                         title                                           abstract                                           filepath
0  1512.03385.pdf          NaN  Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition  Deeper neural networks are more difficult to tr...  /path/to/sample_papers/1512.03385.pdf
1   1406.2661.pdf          GAN                   Generative Adversarial Nets  We propose a new framework for estimating gene...  /path/to/sample_papers/GAN/1406.2661.pdf
2  1706.03762.pdf  Transformer                     Attention Is All You Need  The dominant sequence transduction models are ...  /path/to/sample_papers/Transformer/1706.03762.pdf

You can find some options by $ python make_catalog.py -h.

License

MIT