I, Librarian is a PDF manager or PDF organizer that allows individual researchers or a group of researchers to create an annotated collection of PDF articles. Users may build the virtual library collaboratively, thus sharing the workload of literature mining. It enables smart browsing and fast searching in reference data and PDF files, and includes an advanced tool for mining scientific literature from PubMed, PubMed Central, NASA ADS, arXiv, JSTOR, and HighWire Press.
| Tags | PDF Bibliography |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | Windows Mac OS X Ubuntu Linux Linux |
| Implementation | HTML jQuery PHP SQLite |
Last announcement
In the user survey, the most desired feature of I, Librarian is PDF annotation. As a result, this feature will be included in the next version.
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Recent releases


Release Notes: This release brings an improved user interface that utilizes AJAX, and an improved Internet database search, including Quick Save and a flagged-item list. Users can now batch-upload PDFs from any computer, not just localhost. This version also contains an internal PDF viewer, which converts PDFs to PNG images that are displayed in a browser like any other image. The viewer features the ability to navigate, zoom, and drag-scroll individual pages. You can also search words in the PDFs, and the search results will be highlighted on each page. Preview thumbnails are also available.
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