paper-analyzer

You can extract structured research elements from multiple PDFs into Excel by providing local file paths, letting the parser read each document, and generating a worksheet per paper alongside a cross-paper comparison summary to streamline your literature review.

Yes, multi-paper analysis supports generating an optional cross-paper comparison summary in Excel. It creates an individual worksheet for each parsed document and aggregates the 12 extracted research elements to help you compare findings across multiple academic papers efficiently.

The paper analysis process uses a pdftotext fallback to extract text from complex PDFs that cannot be directly read. It optionally reads the early pages first to understand document structure before extracting the 12 research elements.

The paper analysis method supports both PDF and Word documents. It uses document reading tools to parse the provided local file paths and extract the 12 structured research elements before exporting the results to an Excel file saved next to the source.

Structured reading extracts 12 specific research elements: research background, research question with type, conclusions, literature synthesis and critique, methods, theoretical framework, consistency findings, inconsistency findings, contribution, limitations, and future research outlook.