pdfextract
By crossref
pdffigures2
Given a scholarly PDF, extract figures, tables, captions, and section titles. (by allenai)
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| 1 | 2 | |
| - | 531 | |
| - | 3.4% | |
| - | 0.0 | |
| - | about 2 months ago | |
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| - | Apache License 2.0 |
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pdfextract
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Project to rebuild papers with plaintext markup languages
- An alternative is pdfextract by Crossref. They probably use this to build their own large database. It also works really well and gives you some JSON that would probably need less postprocessing than Grobid. I didn't use it for some minor technical reason that I forgot.
pdffigures2
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Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on
Check this project from AllenAI called PdfFigures: they also extract tables
https://github.com/allenai/pdffigures2
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Project to rebuild papers with plaintext markup languages
- pdffigures2 is from the team behind Semantic Scholar, and they probably use it to extract the figures that they show in their search engine. It only extracts figures and their captions and no other things. I don't recall whether the other tools can also extract figures, but if not, then this will be a perfect supplement.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pdfextract and pdffigures2 you can also consider the following projects:
s2orc-doc2json - Parsers for scientific papers (PDF2JSON, TEX2JSON, JATS2JSON)
dotherside - C language library for creating bindings for the Qt QML language
grobid - A machine learning software for extracting information from scholarly documents
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
CERMINE - Content ExtRactor and MINEr
pandoc - Universal markup converter