PaperTools
pdf2doi
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PaperTools
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Ask HN: How do you manage bibtex?
I've had similar struggles in the past. My solution at the time was a bib file quasi-managed by hand using JabRef. I would also periodically do some automatic updating using a script I wrote[0]. The script uses the NASA Astrophysics Data System to look for updates to papers (they cross-match arXiv preprints with the eventual publications) and updates the bibtex accordingly. It mostly worked, but there were some bugs (the last 10% takes 90% of the time).
I've since resorted to more hand-checking of references when I'm publishing a paper. Rreference management is tedious, but I've found that it is overall is a minor fraction of the time spent working on a paper. So it doesn't seem worth spending too much effort automating.
[0] https://github.com/privong/PaperTools/blob/main/bib_update.p...
pdf2doi
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pdf2doi : A python library to retrieve the DOI (or other identifiers) from a pdf file
For an arXiv paper is slightly more complicated because a query to export.arxiv.org returns data in XML format, so you need to parse it (I use feedparser) and then build a valid BibTeX string. You can take a look at the functions arxiv2bib and make_bibtex.
What are some alternatives?
LaTeX-OCR - pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code.
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
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
arxiv-vanity - Renders papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don't have to squint at a PDF.
rebiber - A simple tool to update bib entries with their official information (e.g., DBLP or the ACL anthology).
arxiv-latex-cleaner - arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv
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!
textract - extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.
pdftitle - a utility to extract the title from a PDF file
pubs - Your bibliography on the command line
cobib - Console Bibliography
camelot - Camelot: PDF Table Extraction for Humans