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Sed ut perspiciatis unde.

Paperify transforms any document, web page, or ebook into a research paper.

The text of the generated paper is the same as the text of the original
document, but figures and equations from real papers are interspersed
throughout.

A paper title and abstract are added (optionally generated by ChatGPT, if you
provide an API key), and the entire paper is compiled with the IEEE $LaTeX$
template for added realism.

First, install the dependencies:

curl
Python 3
Pandoc
jq
LaTeX (via TeXLive)
ImageMagick (optional)

For example, on Debian-based systems (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, WSL):

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends 
  pandoc 
  curl ca-certificates 
  jq 
  python3 
  imagemagick 
  texlive texlive-publishers texlive-science lmodern texlive-latex-extra

Then, clone the repo (or directly pull the script), and execute it.

curl -L https://github.com/jstrieb/paperify/raw/master/paperify.sh 
  | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/paperify
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/paperify

paperify -h

examples/cox.pdf

Convert Russ Cox’s transcript of Doug McIlroy’s talk on the history of Bell
Labs into a paper saved to the /tmp/
directory as article.pdf.
```
paperify 
  --from-format html 
  "https://research.swtch.com/bell-labs" 
  /tmp/article.pdf
```
examples/london.pdf

Download figures and equations from the 1000 latest computer science papers
on arXiv.org. Intersperse the figures and equations into Jack London’s
Call of the Wild with a higher-than-default equation frequency. Use ChatGPT
to generate a paper title, author, abstract, and metadata for an imaginary
paper on soft body robotics. Save the file in the current directory as
london.pdf.
```
paperify 
  --arxiv-category cs 
  --num-papers 1000 
  --equation-frequency 18 
  --chatgpt-token "sk-[REDACTED]" 
  --chatgpt-topic "soft body robotics" 
  "https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london/the-call-of-the-wild/downloads/jack-london_the-call-of-the-wild.epub" 
  london.pdf
```