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e7fce72
recursive extract
boyanpenkov Feb 20, 2026
af9854a
clean flake8 imports
boyanpenkov Feb 20, 2026
ed13352
set file detection better
boyanpenkov Feb 20, 2026
aca948e
attempt at doing this with copying from testaddrecursive
boyanpenkov Feb 20, 2026
78ca314
get papers status -v to tell you bibtex file count
boyanpenkov Feb 21, 2026
395b1e3
clean one print, del
boyanpenkov Feb 21, 2026
3ad9b95
make the split more explicit, since this fails on stuff like '&'
boyanpenkov Feb 22, 2026
bcce2f5
parse files that have : in them
boyanpenkov Feb 23, 2026
777d382
Merge branch 'parse_files' into status_files
boyanpenkov Feb 23, 2026
7f1ab74
better way of doing this
boyanpenkov Feb 23, 2026
ce9d535
Merge branch 'parse_files' into status_files
boyanpenkov Feb 23, 2026
74ed22f
make things a little more readable, and push the CI tro run again
boyanpenkov Feb 23, 2026
693a027
Merge branch 'parse_files' into status_files
boyanpenkov Feb 23, 2026
79d0f89
test works, but is not architecturally as brilliant as one might want
boyanpenkov Feb 23, 2026
e875bdf
add manager, semaphore to do doi query in paralle with protected cache
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
4d14d99
Merge branch 'recursive_extract' into status_files
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
89ce758
was passing in the locks wrong
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
2ac95e3
Merge branch 'recursive_extract' into status_files
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
3394773
positional arg mistake
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
09d6040
Merge branch 'recursive_extract' into status_files
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
4873a62
needs a default
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
2a04b1a
Merge branch 'recursive_extract' into status_files
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
e7e2970
apparently None is a fail
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
c59466c
tests updated, definlty had locks in the wrong places
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
b9d3930
Merge branch 'recursive_extract' into status_files
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
eaa422c
OK, cleaner, but issue with the function wrapper
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
bc892c0
Merge branch 'recursive_extract' into status_files
boyanpenkov Mar 15, 2026
60b7cf3
fixed lock bug, missed call
boyanpenkov Mar 16, 2026
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36 changes: 34 additions & 2 deletions papers/__main__.py
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Expand Up @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
import itertools
import fnmatch # unix-like match
from slugify import slugify
import concurrent.futures
import multiprocessing

import papers
from papers import logger
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -790,7 +792,36 @@ def fetchcmd(parser, o):
print(fetch_bibtex_by_fulltext_crossref(field))

def extractcmd(parser, o):
print(extract_pdf_metadata(o.pdf, search_doi=not o.fulltext, search_fulltext=True, scholar=o.scholar, minwords=o.word_count, max_query_words=o.word_count, image=o.image))
if os.path.isdir(o.pdf) and o.recursive:
pdf_files = Path(o.pdf).rglob('*.pdf')
futures = []
with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
with multiprocessing.Manager() as manager:
# One single lock for the cache access
# which has to be done serially
local_lock = manager.Lock()
for pdf in pdf_files:
future = executor.submit(extract_pdf_metadata,
pdf,
the_lock=local_lock,
search_doi=not o.fulltext,
search_fulltext=True,
scholar=o.scholar,
minwords=o.word_count,
max_query_words=o.word_count,
image=o.image)
futures.append(future)
for future in futures:
print(future.result())
del local_lock
del futures
del pdf_files

elif os.path.isfile(o.pdf) == 1 and o.pdf.endswith('.pdf'):
print(extract_pdf_metadata(o.pdf, None, search_doi=not o.fulltext, search_fulltext=True, scholar=o.scholar, minwords=o.word_count, max_query_words=o.word_count, image=o.image))
else:
raise ValueError('extract requires a single pdf or a directory and --recursive.')
# TODO trivially extend this for len(o.file) > 1, but no dir
# print(fetch_bibtex_by_doi(o.doi))


Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1265,6 +1296,7 @@ def get_parser(config=None):
extractp.add_argument('--fulltext', action='store_true', help='fulltext only (otherwise DOI-based)')
extractp.add_argument('--scholar', action='store_true', help='use google scholar instead of default crossref for fulltext search')
extractp.add_argument('--image', action='store_true', help='convert to image and use tesseract instead of pdftotext')
extractp.add_argument('--recursive', action='store_true', help='takes one directory as an arguement; recursively descends into it and shows extracted bibibinfo for each pdf')

# *** Pure OS related file checks ***

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1396,4 +1428,4 @@ def main_clean_exit(args=None):
if __name__ == "__main__":
# we use try/except here to use a clean exit instead of trace
# test and debugging may use main() directly for speed-up => better to avoid sys.exit there
main_clean_exit()
main_clean_exit()
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion papers/bib.py
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Expand Up @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ def add_pdf(self, pdf, attachments=None, search_doi=True, search_fulltext=True,
if doi:
bibtex = fetch_bibtex_by_doi(doi)
else:
bibtex = extract_pdf_metadata(pdf, search_doi, search_fulltext, scholar=scholar)
bibtex = extract_pdf_metadata(pdf, None, search_doi, search_fulltext, scholar=scholar)
bib = parse_string(bibtex)
entry = bib.entries[0]

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18 changes: 17 additions & 1 deletion papers/config.py
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Expand Up @@ -162,6 +162,20 @@ def _update_paths_to_absolute(self):

def status(self, check_files=False, verbose=False):

def _count_files_in_bibtex(db):
"""
Given a bibtexparser database, return the file count
in it, over all the guys that have multiple files.
"""
file_count = 0
for entry in db.entries:
# assumes papers only sticks things in a file = {:whatever.pdf:pdf} line
if 'file' in entry:
# assumes papers has multiple files separated by ';'
files = entry['file'].split('.pdf:pdf;')
file_count += len(files)
return file_count

def _fmt_path(p):
if self.local:
return os.path.relpath(p, ".")
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -210,7 +224,9 @@ def _fmt_path(p):
bibtexstring = open(self.bibtex).read()
db = parse_string(bibtexstring)
if len(db.entries):
status = bcolors.OKBLUE+' ({} entries)'.format(len(db.entries))+bcolors.ENDC
file_count = _count_files_in_bibtex(db)
status = bcolors.OKBLUE+' ({} files in {} entries)'.format(file_count, len(db.entries))+bcolors.ENDC
del file_count
else:
status = bcolors.WARNING+' (empty)'+bcolors.ENDC
except:
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55 changes: 40 additions & 15 deletions papers/encoding.py
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
import os
from pathlib import Path
from unidecode import unidecode as unicode_to_ascii

import re
from bibtexparser.middlewares import LatexDecodingMiddleware

from papers import logger
Expand All @@ -17,23 +17,48 @@
# Parse / format bibtex file entry
# ================================

def _parse_file(file):
""" parse a single file entry
"""
sfile = file.split(':')

if len(sfile) == 1: # no ':'
path, type = file, ''

elif len(sfile) == 2:
path, type = sfile

elif len(sfile) == 3:
basename, path, type = sfile

def _parse_file(file):
"""parse a single file entry"""

if len(file.split(":")) == 1: # no ':'
path, type = file, ""
return path

# The regex pattern:
# ^ : Start of string
# ^([^:]*) -> Group 1: Up to first colon
# : -> The first colon
# (?:(.*):)? -> Optional Group 2: Greedy middle + a colon
# ([^:]*)$ -> Group 3: Beyond last colon

regex = r"^([^:]*):(?:(.*):)?([^:]*)$"

match = re.match(regex, file)
if match:
# re.match().groups() returns (group1, group2, group3)
# If a group isn't matched, it is None.
g1, g2, g3 = match.groups()

if g1 is None and g2 is None:
# 1 part: "path"
path, type = g3, ""
basename = ""
elif g1 is not None and g2 is None:
# 2 parts: "path:type"
path, type = g1, g3
basename = ""
else:
# 3 parts: "basename:path:type"
basename, path, type = g1, g2, g3
else:
raise ValueError('unknown `file` format: '+ repr(file))
raise ValueError("unknown `file` format: " + repr(file))

# TODO the original version of this
# set type and basename and never
# used them, only returning path
# as a string.
# return basename, path, type
return path


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37 changes: 30 additions & 7 deletions papers/extract.py
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Expand Up @@ -341,7 +341,14 @@ def query_text(txt, max_query_words=200):
return query_txt


def extract_txt_metadata(txt, search_doi=True, search_fulltext=False, max_query_words=200, scholar=False):
def extract_txt_metadata(
txt,
search_doi=True,
search_fulltext=False,
lock=None,
max_query_words=200,
scholar=False,
):
"""
extract metadata from text, by parsing and doi-query, or by fulltext query in google scholar
"""
Expand All @@ -355,7 +362,15 @@ def extract_txt_metadata(txt, search_doi=True, search_fulltext=False, max_query_
doi = parse_doi(txt)
logger.info('found doi:'+doi)
logger.debug('query bibtex by doi')
bibtex = fetch_bibtex_by_doi(doi)

# lock protect the possible cache write here
# in the cached decorator
if lock is not None:
with lock:
bibtex = fetch_bibtex_by_doi(doi)
else:
bibtex = fetch_bibtex_by_doi(doi)

logger.debug('doi query successful')

except DOIParsingError as error:
Expand All @@ -375,20 +390,27 @@ def extract_txt_metadata(txt, search_doi=True, search_fulltext=False, max_query_
logger.debug('query bibtex by fulltext')
query_txt = query_text(txt, max_query_words)
if scholar:
bibtex = fetch_bibtex_by_fulltext_scholar(query_txt)
# lock protect the possible cache write here
# in the decorator
# TODO this may be a different cache file
# Like, might make sense to pass one lock for arxiv.json
# and one for crossref.json
if lock is not None:
with lock:
bibtex = fetch_bibtex_by_fulltext_scholar(query_txt)
else:
bibtex = fetch_bibtex_by_fulltext_scholar(query_txt)
else:
bibtex = fetch_bibtex_by_fulltext_crossref(query_txt)
logger.debug('fulltext query successful')

if not bibtex:
raise ValueError('failed to extract metadata')

return bibtex


def extract_pdf_metadata(pdf, search_doi=True, search_fulltext=True, maxpages=10, minwords=200, image=False, **kw):
def extract_pdf_metadata(pdf, the_lock, search_doi=True, search_fulltext=True, maxpages=10, minwords=200, image=False, **kw):
txt = pdfhead(pdf, maxpages, minwords, image=image)
return extract_txt_metadata(txt, search_doi, search_fulltext, **kw)
return extract_txt_metadata(txt, search_doi, search_fulltext, lock=the_lock, **kw)

@cached('crossref.json')
def fetch_crossref_by_doi(doi):
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -571,6 +593,7 @@ def crossref_to_bibtex(message):


# @cached('crossref-bibtex-fulltext.json', hashed_key=True)
# TODO if that gets uncommented above, will have to lock protect that cache
def fetch_bibtex_by_fulltext_crossref(txt, **kw):
logger.debug('crossref fulltext seach:\n'+txt)

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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions tests/test_add.py
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Expand Up @@ -2,10 +2,8 @@
import shutil
import subprocess as sp
import tempfile
import unittest
from pathlib import Path

import bibtexparser
from papers.entries import parse_file as bp_parse_file, parse_string, get_entry_val
from papers.encoding import entry_to_unicode_dict

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11 changes: 6 additions & 5 deletions tests/test_encoding.py
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Expand Up @@ -33,10 +33,11 @@ def test_parse_files(self):
files = parse_file(':/path/to/file1.pdf:pdf;:/path/to/file2.pdf:pdf')
self.assertEqual(files, ['/path/to/file1.pdf','/path/to/file2.pdf'])

def test_parse_file_invalid_format_raises(self):
with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as ctx:
parse_file('a:b:c:d')
self.assertIn('unknown', str(ctx.exception))
# def test_parse_file_invalid_format_raises(self):
# with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as ctx:
# # Give it a plausible, mangled filename TODO
# parse_file('a:b:c:d')
# self.assertIn('unknown', str(ctx.exception))


def test_format_file(self):
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -163,4 +164,4 @@ class TestUnicode(BibTest):


class TestUnicodeVsLatexEncoding(BibTest):
pass
pass
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