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NAME

       xapers - personal journal article indexing system

SYNOPSIS

       xapers command [args ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Xapers  is  a personal document indexing system, geared towards academic journal articles.
       It provides fast search of document  text  and  bibliographic  data  (synced  from  online
       libraries) and simple document and bibtex retrieval.

       Xapers  takes  as  input  document  files  (as PDF) and source identifiers.  Documents are
       copied into a local document store (~/.xapers/docs by default) and text is extracted  from
       the PDF and fully indexed into a Xapian database.  Source identifiers are used to download
       document bibliographic data from online digital libraries (see SOURCES below),  which  are
       then parsed and indexed to prefixed terms in the database.  The bibliographic data is also
       stored as bibtex in the document store for easy retrieval.  Documents can  be  arbitrarily
       tagged.

       A  curses  UI  is  provided  for  simple access to documents (see the view command below).
       Xapers is ultimately a document indexing library, though, so development of alternate user
       interfaces is encouraged.

       Underlying  Xapers is the wonderful Xapian database/search engine.  See http://xapian.org/
       for more information.

MAIN COMMANDS

       The following are the main xapers commands.  See SEARCH TERMS below  for  details  of  the
       supported syntax for <search-terms>.

   add [options] [<search-terms>]
       Add  a  document,  or update an existing document.  Must specify at least one of --file or
       --source.  If search terms are provided they must  match  exactly  one  document  and  the
       matching document is updated with the newly provided information.  Available options:

           --source=[<sid>|<file>]
               Source  identifier for document.  See SOURCES below.  This may also be a path to a
               file that contains a single bibtex entry.

           --file[=<file>]
               Document file (as PDF) to add.  Text of document will be extracted and indexed.  A
               copy of the file will be placed in the Xapers document store.  If provided without
               path, xapers will attempt to download file from source, assuming  source  supports
               file downloads.

           --tags=<tag>[,...]
               Initial  tags  to  apply  to  document.   Multiple  tags  can  be specified, comma
               separated.

           --prompt
               Prompt user for source/file/tags, if not specified.   When  prompting  for  source
               information input files are automatically scanned for source IDs and found ids are
               displayed.

           --view
               View resulting entry in curses UI when done.  See the viewP command below for more
               info.

   import [options] <bibtex>
       Import  an  existing  bibtex database.  Each bibtex entry will be added as a new document.
       If bibtex key, or any sources found in bibtex, match an existing document,  that  document
       is  instead  updated  (this  makes the command effectively idempotent).  Any "file" fields
       will be parsed for document files to add.  Files can be specified as a single path, or  in
       Mendeley/Jabref format.  Available options:

           --tags=<tag>[,...]
               Tags  to  apply  to all imported documents.  Multiple tags can be specified, comma
               separated.

   tag +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <search-terms>
       Add/remove tags from documents.  '--' can be used  to  separate  tagging  operations  from
       search terms.

   search [options] <search-terms>
       Search for documents in the database.  Document information is printed to stdout.

           --output=[summary|bibtex|tags|sources|keys|files]

               Specify document information to be output:

               summary outputs a single-line summary of the documents (default).

               bibtex outputs bibtex for all documents (if available).

               tags outputs all tags associated with documents.

               sources outputs all sources associated with documents.

               keys outputs all bibtex citation keys associated with documents.

               files outputs the full paths to all files associated with documents.

               Default is summary.

           --limit=N

               Limit number of results returned to N.

   bibtex <search-terms>
       Short for "search --output=bibtex <search-terms>".

   count <search-terms>
       Return a simple count of search results.

   view [<search-terms>]
   show [<search-terms>]
       View  search  results  in  curses search UI.  Documents matching search are displayed with
       their bibliographic information and a short text  summary.   It  allows  for  manipulating
       document  tags  and for retrieved for document files and source URLs for viewing (see xdg-
       open(1) for more info).  Initial search terms can be provided, but further searches can be
       performed from within the UI.  While in the UI type "?" for available commands.

       NOTE:  At  the  moment  only  the  top 20 search results are displayed, due to synchronous
       loading restrictions.  This obviously needs to be fixed.

   export <directory> <search-terms>
       Copy PDF files of resulting documents into <directory>, named with  document  titles  when
       available.

   delete <search-terms>
       Delete  documents  from  the  database.   All document files will purged from the document
       store.

           --noprompt
               Do not prompt to confirm deletion of documents.

   restore
       Restore a database from existing xapers root.

SOURCE COMMANDS

       These commands provide access to some of the source module methods.  See SOURCES below.

   sources
       List available sources.

   source2url <sid> [<sid>...]
       Parse a source identifier string and print the corresponding source URL.

   source2bib <sid> [<sid>...]
       Retrieve bibtex from source for a specified URL or source id, and write to stdout.

   source2file <sid>
       Retrieve file from source for a specified URL or source id, and write to stdout.

   scandoc <file>
       Scan a document file (PDF) for source IDs, and print and recognized source ids to stdout.

SOURCES

       Sources are online databases from which document bibliographic data can be retrieved.   In
       Xapers,  online  libraries  are  assigned unique prefixes.  The online libraries associate
       unique document identifiers to individual documents.  See 'xapers sources' for a  list  of
       available online sources.

       Xapers recognizes document a source identifier, or sid, in two forms:

         full URL                      http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.29.002092
         sid of form <source>:<id>     doi:10.1364/JOSAA.29.002092

       URLs  are parsed into sources and source ids when recognized, and this information is used
       to retrieve bibtex from the online library databases.  The sources and sids  for  a  given
       document are stored as prefixed terms in the Xapers database (see below).

SEARCH TERMS

       Xapers supports a common syntax for search terms.

       Search  can  consist  of  free-form  text  and quoted phrases.  Terms can be combined with
       standard Boolean operators.  All  terms  are  combined  with  a  logical  OR  by  default.
       Parentheses can be used to group operators, but must be protect from shell interpretation.
       The string '*' will match all documents in the database.

       Additionally, the following prefixed terms are understood (where <brackets> indicate user-
       supplied values):

           id:<docid>                   Xapers document ID
           author:<string>              string in authors (also a:)
           title:<string>               string in title (also t:)
           tag:<tag>                    specific user tag
           <source>:<id>                specific source id (sid)
           source:<source>              specific source
           key:<key>                    specific bibtex citation key
           year:<year>                  specific publication year (also y:)
           year:<since>..<until>        publication year range (also y:)
           year:..<until>
           year:<since>..

       Publication years must be four-digit integers.

       See the following for more information on search terms:

         http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html

ENVIRONMENT

       The following environment variables can be used to control the behavior of xapers:

   XAPERS_ROOT
       Location of the Xapers document store.  Defaults to "~/.xapers/docs" if not specified.

   XAPERS_SOURCE_PATH
       Path  specification  for location of additional custom Xapers source modules.  Defaults to
       "~/.xapers/sources" if not specified.

CONTACT

       Feel free to email the author:

           Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>

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