rebiber VS betterbib

Compare rebiber vs betterbib and see what are their differences.

rebiber

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

betterbib

:green_book: Command-line tools for bibliographies. (by texworld)
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rebiber betterbib
2 3
2,441 805
- 0.5%
5.6 2.8
2 months ago about 1 month ago
Python Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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rebiber

Posts with mentions or reviews of rebiber. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.
  • [D] How to find conference citation from arxiv
    1 project | /r/MachineLearning | 21 Dec 2022
    Check out rebiber
  • BibTeX Tidy
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2021
    This is great! Especially nice to be able to remove entire fields.

    Relatedly, here are a couple of tools to ensure that references are complete (e.g. updating arXiv papers to their published versions, mostly for computer science papers):

    - https://github.com/yuchenlin/rebiber (CLI, web interface)

    - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ga384/bibfix.html (only *ACL papers, web interface with diff, disclaimer: mine)

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

biblint - BibLint -- a system for fixing bibtex databases

VSCode-LaTeX-Inkscape - ✍️ A way to integrate LaTeX, VS Code, and Inkscape in macOS

allmytexs

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

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

.config - NeoVim configuration optimized for writing in LaTeX