metachris/pdfx
Extract text, metadata and references (pdf, url, doi, arxiv) from PDF. Optionally download all referenced PDFs. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3975
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1175
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1076 stars · 118 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
PDFx is a Python command-line tool and library that extracts metadata, text, and references (PDFs, URLs, DOIs, arXiv IDs) from PDF documents. It can also download all referenced PDFs in parallel and check for broken hyperlinks.
Use cases
- extract references from a research paper pdf
- download all cited pdfs from a paper
- extract metadata from a pdf file
- find broken links in a pdf document
- extract plain text from a pdf
- get doi and arxiv references from academic papers
When to choose
- you need to extract citations or hyperlinks from academic PDFs
- you want a simple CLI or Python API for PDF metadata and reference extraction
- you want to bulk-download papers referenced by a PDF
When to avoid
- you need OCR for scanned PDFs
- you need full-featured PDF manipulation like editing or form filling
- you need actively maintained software with recent updates
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
pdf parser web-scraping cli pdf files developer-tools python cli cross-platform pdf-metadata reference-extraction doi arxiv link-checking command-line
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/metachris/pdfx · fetched 2026-08-28 · 25088abc638b
- homepage: http://www.metachris.com/pdfx · fetched 2026-08-29 · ae3f2cfd180f
- site_page: https://www.metachris.dev/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 772897236c48
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pdfx/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2db6566cc32e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| metachris/pdfx | main | 10 |
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