PaperTools vs betterbib

PaperTools

Tools for writing papers (by privong)

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betterbib

:green_book: Command-line tools for bibliographies. (by texworld)

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PaperTools		betterbib
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1	Mentions	3
0	Stars	803
-	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	2.8
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Python	Language	Python
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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PaperTools

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betterbib

Posts with mentions or reviews of betterbib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.

BibTeX Tidy
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2021

I find formatting is usually a nonissue with BibTeX files as entries tend to already be automatically generated from some authoritative source (e.g., CrossRef).
What I do end up using a lot however is nschloe's betterbib [1].
[1] https://github.com/nschloe/betterbib
betterbib
2 projects | /r/LaTeX | 24 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PaperTools and betterbib you can also consider the following projects:

LaTeX-OCR - pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code.

zotero-better-bibtex - Make Zotero effective for us LaTeX holdouts

rebiber - A simple tool to update bib entries with their official information (e.g., DBLP or the ACL anthology).

allmytexs

biblint - BibLint -- a system for fixing bibtex databases

jabref - Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases

.config - NeoVim configuration optimized for writing in LaTeX

zotero - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.

bibtex2style - bibtex2style is a script that takes .bib file as an input and produces an .xlsx file with entries processed by biblatex with an according style (like `gost`). It also respects bold an italics fonts!

pyLoad - The free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python

A-tidy-LaTeX-project-templ

bibcure - Bibcure helps in boring tasks by keeping your bibfile up to date and normalized...also allows you to easily download all papers inside your bibtex