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Re:Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News by leandot on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:53AM (#12365822)
That can be done, question is how to recognize id a pdf is a paper or not. A bit trickier than books imho.
Re:Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News by Retr0spectrum on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:07AM (#12365903)
That sounds like a fun application of a neural network. Finding large repositories of "real" papers to train it with should be fairly easy, too.

That said, I have zero experience working with neural networks, so it might not be very easy at all.

Re:Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News by icen on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:02AM (#12365872)
You'd get pretty far just by whitelisting arxiv, .edu, .ac.uk, etc.