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A service that converts PDF research papers into a clean readable webpage. Their example paper was a research paper with two columns and diagrams to show their

A service that converts PDF research papers into a clean readable webpage. Their example paper was a research paper with two columns and diagrams to show their service actually works well. I searched a couple of times but couldn't find them again...

allenz 8y ago
Probably this demo: http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988
- arjunbajaj 8y ago
  I have stumbled upon this, but unfortunately, this is not it. That was a hosted web service and it extracted the text and figures from the research paper but didn't maintain the structure. You could read it on a phone too. I remember it didn't work on all research papers but was slowly expanding its database of supported papers. There was a place to paste the URL of a research paper to be processed.
severine 8y ago
Sounds like pdf2htmlEX. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988 Pdf2htmlEX – Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format (github.com) 161 points by coolwanglu on May 5, 2013 | 48 comments http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html (Demo of research paper) http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/ http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/
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slow_donkey 8y ago
Fwiw I've looked into these sorts of tools in the past for a work project and none of them work very well. Converting HTML to PDF is a solved problem but the other way around never comes out clean. If your document structure is p simple it might be fine but I wouldn't bother for anything else.
orbuch 8y ago
perhaps https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/ https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/?
- arjunbajaj 8y ago
  Yes that's the one! Thank you so much!

allenz 8y ago

Probably this demo: http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988

arjunbajaj 8y ago
I have stumbled upon this, but unfortunately, this is not it. That was a hosted web service and it extracted the text and figures from the research paper but didn't maintain the structure. You could read it on a phone too. I remember it didn't work on all research papers but was slowly expanding its database of supported papers. There was a place to paste the URL of a research paper to be processed.

severine 8y ago

Sounds like pdf2htmlEX. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988 Pdf2htmlEX – Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format (github.com) 161 points by coolwanglu on May 5, 2013 | 48 comments http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html (Demo of research paper) http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/ http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/

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slow_donkey 8y ago

Fwiw I've looked into these sorts of tools in the past for a work project and none of them work very well. Converting HTML to PDF is a solved problem but the other way around never comes out clean. If your document structure is p simple it might be fine but I wouldn't bother for anything else.

orbuch 8y ago

perhaps https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/ https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/?

arjunbajaj 8y ago
Yes that's the one! Thank you so much!