open-in-overleaf

A browser extension to open and edit any arxiv.org paper directly on overleaf.

usage-demo.mp4

This is useful to examine how some feature or typesetting effect in a paper was implemented in LaTex. It's also useful to copy equations, citations and tables from the paper for derivative work or presentations.

Install

• Chrome Web Store

Usage

On the arxiv page, click Open in Overleaf link on the sidebar and the latex source code will open up in overleaf. The Open in Overleaf link is not shown for papers where the authors haven't uploaded the latex source.

How it works

1. Arxiv provides a latex source for each paper in a .tar.gz format
2. Overleaf provides an API endpoint to open a latex project with a direct link to a zip file
3. Our extension converts the .tar.gz file from arxiv to a zip file using a backend service hosted on huggingface spaces here
4. We then redirect the user to the overleaf page with that url