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Re:Tell HN: Replace the X with a 5 in arXiv.org to display a... by michaelhoffman on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:52AM (#30164112)
bioRxiv converts PDFs to full-text already. They're right there on the bioRxiv web site—just click the "Full text" tab. For example, our most recent bioRxiv preprint:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.07.475366v1....

If you want to do URL munging instead of using the UI, just add `.full` to the end of the URL ;)

This doesn't require that the manuscript be submitted in any particular format either. There are humans involved in making sure the full text formatting from PDF is good.

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