PaperTools vs betterbib

PaperTools

Tools for writing papers (by privong)

#Latex #bibtex

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betterbib

:green_book: Update BibTeX files with info from online resources. (by texworld)

#bibtex #Latex #Python #Pypi

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PaperTools		betterbib
	Project
1	Mentions	3
0	Stars	784
-	Growth	0.6%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Python	Language	Python
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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PaperTools

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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