Hammer PDF: An Intelligent PDF Reader for Scientific Papers

Reading scientific papers has been an essential way for researchers to acquire academic knowledge, and most papers are in PDF format. However, existing PDF Readers only support reading, editing, annotating and other basic functions, and lack of multi-granularity analysis for academic papers. Specifically, taking a paper as a whole, these PDF Readers cannot access extended information of the paper, such as related videos, blogs, codes, etc.; meanwhile, for the content of a paper, these PDF Readers also cannot extract and display academic details of the paper, such as terms, authors, citations, etc. In this paper, we introduce Hammer PDF, a novel intelligent PDF Reader for scientific papers. Beyond basic reading functions, Hammer PDF comes with four innovative features: (1) locate, mark and interact with spans (e.g., terms) obtained by information extraction; (2) citation, reference, code, video, blog, and other extended information are displayed with a paper; (3) built-in Hammer Scholar, an academic search engine that uses academic information collected from major academic databases; (4) built-in Q\&A bot to support asking for interested conference information. Our product helps researchers, especially those who study computer science, to improve the efficiency and experience of reading scientific papers. We release Hammer PDF, available for download at https://pdf.hammerscholar.net/face.