Babel

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Overview

What is Babel ?

Babel was an attempt to develop a PDF document manager.

Actually it features:

• a PDF browser that permit to navigate in the file system, display PDF documents and sort (move) them in a similar way than the Geeqie image viewer.

• a GUI showing the PDF document metadatas, pages and corresponding text blocks.

• tools to generate thumbnails, extract text from pages

• a MuPDF binding using CFFI ( it need a dynamic library and API update )

  see also https://github.com/FabriceSalvaire/mupdf-cmake

• a BibTeX parser

• Lexique tool using British National Corpus

• some experimental codes to extract metadata, text, and index them.

  To go further, look at https://whoosh.readthedocs.io and https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch

Where is the Documentation ?

The documentation is available on the Babel Home Page.

How to install it ?

Look at the installation section in the documentation.

Credits

Authors: Fabrice Salvaire

News

V0 2013-02-11

Started project