A GTK4 organizer for scientific PDFs.
The file store is a plain old directory with pdf files in it. There is a pdf view, based on poppler [1] built-in.
Alexandria uses OpenAlex and CrossRef network call and pdf text
extraction to associate metadata [2] with pdf files (.alexandria
extension, but JSON inside) - these are the "sidecars."
An SQLite database is constructed using the sidecars for fast searching.
Alexandria is intended to be XDG Base Directory Protocol [3] compliant. It
writes, by default, to $HOME/Documents/Alexandria and the database to
$HOME/.local/state/Alexandria.
apt install python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-4.0 gir1.2-poppler-0.18 poppler-utils
make install
Upon opening Alexandria, it will detect pdfs files in
$HOME/Documents/Alexandria and try to create a thumbnail png and the
associated metadata (if they don't already exist).
- [1] poppler
https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ - [2] titles, authors, journal, year, DOI, comments
- [3]
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/