Paper Parse

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name: paper-parse

description: Parse academic PDF papers into markdown with figure extraction.

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# Paper Parse

Parse academic PDF papers into structured markdown with figure extraction using PyMuPDF.

Usage

uv run {baseDir}/scripts/parse_paper.py --pdf /path/to/paper.pdf [--output-dir ./output]

Output

The tool generates:

- Paper title

- Number of pages

- Extracted figures with captions and paths

Example

uv run scripts/parse_paper.py --pdf ~/papers/my-paper.pdf --output-dir ./parsed

Output structure:

./parsed/
├── my-paper_content.md
├── my-paper_parsed.json
└── figures/
    ├── figure_1.png
    ├── figure_2.png
    └── ...

Dependencies

These are automatically managed by uv via the inline script metadata.