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+# paperpdf2xml
+
+A set of Python CLI to convert scientific papers in PDF format to  XML documents with sections and tables. 
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+* Make sure you have installed `pdftottext` utility installed for initial PDF to text conversion
+For Ubuntu/Debian
+```
+sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
+```