runs on Windows Windows Linux Linux Mac Mac

Details & Features

Details

Docear is the complete solution for searching, organizing and creating academic literature such as assignments, theses, books and research papers. Just as an office suite bundles the applications essential to the professional environment, Docear integrates the essential applications of a researcher. These include an academic search engine, file manager, PDF reader*, mind mapping and note taking tool, reference manager, paper drafting, and word processor*. While the components are integrated, they are still replaceable so that if you don’t like Docear’s reference manager, you can simply use another one.

Docear has two unique features that no other currently available tools offer. Firstly, Docear lets you import PDF annotations (including bookmarks,  comments and highlighted text). This allows a document’s most important information can be easily organized. If more information is required than the bookmark or comment itself provides, Docear can open the PDF on the page the bookmarks points to. Secondly, all information is structured in a mind map which we believe to be much more effective and efficient than a simple list or social tags.

Docear is programmed in Java 6 and runs on all major operating systems for which Java 6 is available for: Windows (7, Vista, XP, 2000, etc.), Linux, and Mac Os (Leopard 10.5 and later)

Features

  • Integration of all major components required for literature search, organization, and creation into a single application
    • Academic search engine / digital library with free full-text access*
    • Research paper recommender system*
    • Reference manager
    • PDF reader*
    • Information manager (Mind mapper)
    • MS Word, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, and LaTeX add-on*
  • Import and managing of PDF annotations
    • PDF bookmarks
    • PDF comments
    • Highlighted text (with limitations)
  • Structured information management in a mind map instead of simple tables or social tags
  • Using standard formats wherever possible (FreeMind/Freeplane XML, BibTeX, Adobe PDF)
  • Usable instead or as a complement to your existing reference manager (JabRef, Zotero, Mendeley, …)
  • Full control over your data: No registration required and no data is stored on our servers except you allow it explictely
  • Free and open source
  • PDF Metadata extraction
  • Optional storing of Metadata directly in PDF files (XMP Metadata)
  • Monitoring for new files
  • Full reference management capabilities due to complete integration of JabRef
  • Full mind mapping capabilities since Docear is developed as add-on for the mind mapping tool Freeplane
  • Platform independent (runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS)
  • Online backup space
  • Synchronize your data between different computers*
  • Backup of your data including versioning*
  • Read (and limited editing of) your data on Android and iOS devices*

* Not yet implemented, or in combination with third party applications