Paperion is an academic search engine. Its main goal is to find any paper ever published within seconds.
Our database is built upon Elastic Search. It contains ~78 million papers metadata, including ~390,000 ingested papers, with its indexed content stored in text field.
It is open source, and can be self-hosted easily on Docker.

See all screenshots and details at : http://www.blankresearch.com/Paperion/

● Papers : Download ~78 million papers
● Database : ~390,000 ingested papers in Elastic Search
● Recommendations : Get similar papers based on content, or from same author, or same journal.
● Search : Search by title and/or author and/or date -- or date range -- (more details below)
● Deep Search : Search in the ingested papers content by entering a detailed description.
● Collections : Organize and save papers in collections.
● Notes : Highlight quotations from papers, and stick notes to them.
● AI Summary : Summarize papers using OpenAI key.

And for advanced users :
● Ingestion engine to add more papers to the database. More details will be provided.

There are 2 ways to host Paperion locally: through Docker or manually.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blankresearch/Paperion/refs/heads/main/docker-compose.yml 
docker compose up

This will pull the frontend and backend in the same local network. The database is not yet available and will be provided soon.

1. Host Elastic Search database on Docker

   The database is not yet available and will be provided soon.

2. Download and run backend application

   git clone https://github.com/blankresearch/Paperion.git
   cd Paperion/backend
   pyenv install 3.10.7  
   pyenv local 3.10.7  
   python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt 
   uvicorn main:app --reload &

The app will start running locally, allowing you to access it via your browser at : http://localhost:8000 or http://127.0.0.1:8000

3. Run frontend application

   cd Paperion/frontend/paperion
   npm run dev

The will launch frontend accessible via your browser at : http://localhost:3000 or http://127.0.0.1:3000

The project is currently on hold from future development, but fixes will be made.

For feedback or contributions, reach out to me:

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Blank Research page

Made with ❤️ by Youssef.