import-papers

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Organize PDFs, extract metadata, and build BibTeX

AuthorDJRHails
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps researchers manage large PDF libraries by automatically extracting bibliographic metadata, generating standardized BibTeX entries, and organizing the PDFs into a central bibliography.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Metadata extraction: Pulls title, authors, year, and venue from PDFs stored in research/dump/.
  • BibTeX generation: Creates consistent BibTeX entries and appends them to research/papers.bib with proper keys.
  • Automatic organization: Moves and renames PDFs into research/papers/ and deduplicates duplicates.
  • Use Case: Importing a new batch of papers from a conference, then automatically updating the bibliography and file organization.

Quick Start

Use the import-papers skill to process all PDFs in the directory research/dump/ and populate research/papers/ with BibTeX entries.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: import-papers
Download link: https://github.com/DJRHails/dotfiles/archive/main.zip#import-papers

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