PDFx

 

Extract references (pdf, url, doi, arxiv) and metadata from a PDF. Optionally download all referenced PDFs and check for broken links.

Features

• Extract references and metadata from a given PDF
• Detects pdf, url, arxiv and doi references
• Fast, parallel download of all referenced PDFs
• Find broken hyperlinks (using the -c flag) (more)
• Output as text or JSON (using the -j flag)
• Extract the PDF text (using the --text flag)
• Use as command-line tool or Python package
• Compatible with Python 2 and 3
• Works with local and online pdfs

https://github.com/metachris/pdfx