acl-org/acl-anthology

Extract abstracts from PDF

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#395 opened on Jun 6, 2019

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Description

The anthology currently only shows the abstracts if there is an authoritative version in the XML. It would be nice if we could scrape the PDF using some off-the-shelf software to extract the abstracts and dump them into a different file (to not tamper with handcrafted information). Having an abstract on the web pages makes quickly searching through literature much faster.

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Research direction
Explore existing PDF parsing libraries (e.g., PyPDF2, pdfplumber) and integrate to extract abstracts while storing separately from existing XML data.
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python
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backend
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Python
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65