Docear's PDF inspector

Abstract

In this demo-paper we present Docear's PDF Inspector (DPI). DPI extracts titles from academic PDF files by applying a simple heuristic: the largest text on the first page of a PDF is assumed to be the title. This simple heuristic achieves accuracies around 70% and outperforms the tools ParsCit and SciPlore Xtract in both run-time and accuracy. In addition, DPI is released under the free open source license GPL 2+ at http://www.docear.org, written in JAVA, and runs on any major operating system.