acatome-meta
Lightweight metadata lookup and verification for scientific papers. Resolves PDFs to their DOI, title, authors, and journal using Crossref and Semantic Scholar.
Features
- PDF title extraction — extracts candidate titles from PDF first pages
- Crossref lookup — DOI resolution and metadata retrieval
- Semantic Scholar — citation counts, abstracts, and supplementary metadata
- Fuzzy verification — confirms extracted metadata matches the PDF content
- Citation parsing — extracts structured author/year/title from reference strings
- Zero-config — works out of the box, optional API keys for higher rate limits
Installation
uv pip install -e .
Usage
from acatome_meta import lookup
meta = lookup("/path/to/paper.pdf")
print(meta["doi"], meta["title"], meta["authors"])
CLI
acatome-meta lookup paper.pdf
acatome-meta verify paper.pdf --doi 10.1234/example
Configuration
Set SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY for higher rate limits:
export SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY=your_key_here
Testing
uv run python -m pytest tests/ -v
License
LGPL-3.0-or-later — see LICENSE.
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
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