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sciencefair-land / sciencefair

The futuristic, fabulous and free desktop app for working with scientific literature :microscope: :book:
https://sciencefair-app.com
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Show a thumbnail for each paper #5

Closed blahah closed 7 years ago

blahah commented 8 years ago

@freeman-lab's pdf-to-png allows creating a thumbnail from a PDF.

It will be slow to generate these on the fly for each client - it requires downloading a full PDF to create the thumbnail. So a nice setup task is to generate a dataset of thumbnail images from all the papers in our set.

We can start with EuropePMC - download all the PDFs and use pdf-to-png to generate thumbnails with DOIs as filenames. But it should be equally doable for all the open access sources, and even for non-OA papers a thumbnail should be legitimate.

It would be cool to put the images somewhere reusable and behind a nice API.

onbjerg commented 8 years ago

@blahah Maybe S3?

blahah commented 8 years ago

@onbjerg that's definitely an option - somewhere free would be even better :)

onbjerg commented 8 years ago

@blahah GitHub? 😁

blahah commented 8 years ago

@onbjerg yeah that's what I'm thinking! Could also do zenodo and use some sort of comtent addressable format to store a collection of images.

blahah commented 7 years ago

This is really related to PDFs, which aren't planned to be included in v1. Closing this but we can revisit later if we decide to add PDFs.