Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific papers, or other documents

Re:Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific pape... by Noble_Lie on Saturday April 08, 2023 @08:40AM (#35492655)

Installing now to check this out for my large collection of PDFs. Thank you for the open source library.

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Re:Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific pape... by goosedragons on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:34AM (#35492926)

I've been using a self hosted instance of I, Librarian. If it does find the DOI number in the PDF it will query a database to get the metadata. It does a pretty good job so long as the correct DOI number is somewhere in the PDF. You can also batch import PDFs.

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Re:Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific pape... by BlackLotus89 on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:07AM (#35493269)

Ok had to look this up and thanks to the generic name it took a bit. Here [0] the link for everyone who comes after me. It's a simple(?) php based webservice.

[0] https://github.com/mkucej/i-librarian-free

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Re:Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific pape... by Noble_Lie on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:56AM (#35493785)

Thank you for the tip. Will check it out now (child comment linked directly)

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Re:Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific pape... by bomewish on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:01PM (#35499194)

any update of usability here? I have a giant zotero library (and a folder of 100gb pdfs) that I would love to just switch to something like this...

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Re:Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific pape... by NobleLie on Sunday April 09, 2023 @09:44PM (#35508329)

I believe you are asking OP?

If you were asking me, this software is very minimal and not going to compete with zotero for an unknown time frame. What's your current need after using zotero? (Just curious)

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That being said, I really appreciate these initiatives and applaud author of this library, didn't confirm but probably a one-person team.

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Re:Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific pape... by bomewish on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:48AM (#35520970)

No, I was asking you because you said you were going to implement it. I run zotero on two computers and sync them with unison -- but it just seems a bit fragile sometimes. I've corrupted the database once before and it was a hassle to restore. Sharing highlights from ipad back into the library is even more tricky: I sync the entire zotero folder (many gb, but only a portion of my ~200gb of pdfs) to rsync.net, and then sync specific folders through PDF viewer pro or whatever. Then my highlgihts sync to rsync.net, and then back to zotero.

The main benefit from zotero is automatic generation of metadata, renaming of pdfs, and syncing of highlights.

It just feels like a rube goldberg machine. I should actually just PAY 10 bucks a month for zotero unlimited itself.

Having a very rapid full text search functionality on top of all this is the dream. I haven't yet seen a super easy way to implement that beyond running elasticsearch, and that's a rabbithole I don't currently have the incentive to go down.

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