LITERAsearch & translate.
Research · Web app · Used for doctoral dissertation work
IN USE
Searches five academic sources at once, saves papers to a library, then translates the PDF without breaking its equations and tables.
The problem
Dissertation research meant opening five journal search sites one by one, copying citations by hand, and translating foreign-language PDFs whose layout fell apart the moment the text was copied out.
How it works
One query runs in parallel against OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, DOAJ and Garuda; the results are merged and de-duplicated by DOI and title. Translation runs on a queue: a free fast mode through LibreTranslate, and an accurate mode through an LLM with a monthly quota per user.
Built with
In numbers
Core features
- Federated search with year, open-access, language and source filters
- Per-user library: saved papers, folders, tags and notes
- BibTeX and RIS citation export for Mendeley, Zotero and Word
- Per-user search history
- Translation of plain text, abstracts or uploaded PDFs
- Bilingual PDFs that keep equations, tables and figures intact
- Multi-user, with token-based login
Screenshots
Captured from an empty instance run for this purpose — not from real use. The search, library and history screens are deliberately left out: they hold the researcher's own data.
