Installation

Install papers

pip install papers-cli

Note there is another project registered on PyPI as papers, hence papers-cli for command-line-interface. The installed command is still papers.

Dependencies

• python 3.9+
• PyMuPDF (preferred) or poppler-utils (only pdftotext; deprecated): convert PDF to text for parsing
• bibtexparser: parse bibtex files
• crossrefapi: make polite requests to the crossref API
• scholarly: interface for google scholar
• rapidfuzz: calculate score to sort crossref requests
• unidecode: replace unicode with ascii equivalent

The Python dependencies are installed automatically with pip.