TeXCleaner

A GUI front-end for cleaning LaTeX documents of track changes markup.

Features

TeXCleaner supports cleaning track changes from three different LaTeX packages:

1. TrackChanges - For documents using trackchanges.sty
2. Changes - For documents using changes.sty
3. arXiv - For preparing documents for arXiv submission

Installation

From PyPI (Recommended)

pip install texcleaner

After installation, you can run the application with:

texcleaner

From Source

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/texcleaner.git
cd texcleaner
pip install -e .

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• arxiv-latex-cleaner (installed automatically with pip)

Usage

1. Run the application:

texcleaner

Or if running from source:

python -m texcleaner.app

2. Select your input file or folder:

   • For TrackChanges and Changes: Select a .tex file
   • For arXiv: Select the project folder containing your LaTeX files

3. Choose the cleaning option:

   • Remove TrackChanges: Accepts all changes and removes annotations from trackchanges.sty
   • Remove Changes: Accepts all changes from changes.sty
   • Clean for arXiv: Removes comments, resizes images, and organizes files for submission

4. Click Clean to process the file

Output

• TrackChanges/Changes: Creates a new file with _no_track or _cleaned suffix
• arXiv: Creates a new folder with _arXiv suffix

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0).

Acknowledgments

• acceptchanges3.py - Felix Salfner (GPL)
• pyMergeChanges.py - Y. Cui (GPL)
• arxiv-latex-cleaner - Google Research