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JabRef e.V.

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Participation history

6 GSoC years

2026 2025 2024 2022 2021 2019

2026

3 projects

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Improved LibreOffice-JabRef integration

Nowadays, more and more researchers and students choose OpenOffice as an alternative to MS Office. JabRef already provides OpenOffice integration to...

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JabRef Native Image Support

This project aims to bring GraalVM native-image support to JabRef, starting with JabKit and its core dependency JabLib, and then extending to JabGui,...

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Improve handling of older documents by OCR and AI

JabRef, comprehensive literature management software, currently supports both handling metadata and text-based PDF documents. However, a significant...

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2025

3 projects

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JabRef for Visual Studio Code (JabRef4VSCode)

Users of LaTeX tend to use Visual Studio Code (VSCode) for editing their LaTeX and BibTeX files. Although JabRef can still be used as GUI, it would...

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Git Support for JabRef

This project aims to improve Git-based collaboration in JabRef by building a reliable synchronization layer for BibTeX files. It treats Git changes...

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Integrating Walkthrough Feature in JabRef

I aim to improve the Welcome page and create a walkthrough in JabRef. The walkthrough would: 1. Provide an overview of JabRef's core functionality 2....

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2024

3 projects

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AI-Powered Summarization and “Interaction” with Academic Papers

This project seeks to make research more efficient by adding powerful AI tools to JabRef. New features are: - "Interaction" with papers (question...

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Improved CSL Support (and more LibreOffice-JabRef integration enhancements)

JabRef's integration with LibreOffice currently lacks comprehensive support for citing references using the Citation Style Language (CSL), which is a...

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Lucene Search Backend Integration

JabRef offers an extensive search function that is based on a custom search syntax. The goal is to replace the custom search syntax and grammar with...

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2022

1 project

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Implement a Three Way Merge UI for merging BibTeX entries

Merging duplicates and resolving conflicts is a major use case for JabRef users, according to a 2019 research conducted by JabRef developers....

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2021

2 projects

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Microsoft Word Integration

This project’s primary goal is to integrate jabref with Microsoft word using an office add-in. That will allow users to speed up the process of...

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Improve pdf support in JabRef

JabRef currently only has limited support to interact with pdfs. It can only read XMP metadata and cannot write metadata at all. Since pdfs are a...

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2019

1 project

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Bidirectional Integration — Paper Writing — LaTeX and JabRef 5.0

The core of the proposal is a wide improvement of the LaTeX integration with JabRef, focusing on the end-user, whose characteristics have been...

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