# Tools > Every listed resource, editors’ picks first. The filters below can be combined. - Search: append `?q=` to the URL. Separate several keywords with spaces; all of them must match. Matches name, repository, tags, professions, description and README. - Filter by type: append `?type=` to the URL. - Filter by profession: append `?profession=` to the URL. Separate several ids with commas; a resource matches when it suits any of them. Ids are listed at https://hebbmind.com/api/v1/professions - Filter by tag: append `?tag=` to the URL. Separate several tags with commas; a resource must carry all of them. Tags are listed at https://hebbmind.com/api/v1/tags Type CLI, Resources for Research / Academia: 75 items. > Literature search and reviews, experimental data analysis, paper writing and submission. - [yt-dlp](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/yt-dlp.md): [CLI] Command-line audio and video downloader supporting thousands of sites: pick formats and quality, grab subtitles and metadata, and merge or transcode with FFmpeg. The actively maintained fork of youtube-dl. - [MarkItDown](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/markitdown.md): [CLI] Converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, images, audio and more into Markdown that keeps headings, lists and tables, ready for LLMs to read and analyze. Maintained by Microsoft; requires Python 3.10+. - [TradingAgents](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/tradingagents.md): [CLI] Multi-agent investment research framework where fundamental, sentiment, news and technical analysts, bull and bear researchers, a trader and risk managers debate a stock and produce a report and rating. Covers US, Hong Kong and A-shares. Needs Python and an LLM API key; not investment advice. - [Whisper](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/whisper.md): [CLI] OpenAI's open-source general-purpose speech recognition model. The whisper command transcribes many languages, translates foreign speech into English and writes subtitle files. Needs FFmpeg; faster with a GPU. - [PaddleOCR](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/paddleocr.md): [CLI] Baidu PaddlePaddle's official OCR and document parsing tool: the paddleocr command reads text from images and parses PDFs and scans into Markdown or JSON, supporting 100+ languages with models that run locally. - [MinerU](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/mineru.md): [CLI] Document parser from OpenDataLab that turns PDFs, images and Office files into Markdown or JSON, handling tables, formulas and complex layouts well, with page-by-page reading and citation anchors for agents. Parses locally by default; needs Python 3.10+. - [LlamaFactory](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/llamafactory.md): [CLI] All-in-one LLM fine-tuning framework: llamafactory-cli handles pretraining, SFT, PPO/DPO alignment and LoRA/QLoRA training, plus chat inference, weight merging and export, and OpenAI-style API serving for 100+ open models. Has a Web UI; training usually needs a GPU. - [Docling](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/docling.md): [CLI] Parses PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images and audio, recovering layout, reading order, tables and formulas, and exports Markdown, HTML or lossless JSON. Started by IBM Research, now hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation; runs fully locally. - [AI Hedge Fund](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/ai-hedge-fund.md): [CLI] Multi-agent simulated hedge fund: agents modeled on investors like Buffett and Munger work with quant and risk modules to analyze stocks, with backtesting. Good for teaching investment frameworks. Needs Financial Datasets and model API keys; no real trading, not investment advice. - [Typst](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/typst.md): [CLI] Modern markup-based typesetting system, a LaTeX alternative for papers, reports and resumes. Fast incremental compilation; typst compile outputs a PDF in one command and watch mode recompiles automatically. - [CLI-Anything QGIS](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/qgis.md): [CLI] QGIS command-line wrapper from HKU's CLI-Anything project: create and edit .qgz projects, add GeoPackage layers and features, build print layouts and export PDF or images, and call QGIS processing algorithms, with JSON results. Needs QGIS desktop and a Python that can import PyQGIS. - [Qlib](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/qlib.md): [CLI] Microsoft's open-source AI quant investment research platform: the qrun command runs dataset building, model training, backtesting and evaluation from a YAML config, with many benchmark models. The official dataset is paused, so prepare market data per the README first. - [Umi-OCR](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/umi-ocr.md): [CLI] Free, open-source offline OCR desktop app for screenshots, batch images, scanned PDFs and QR codes, callable via the umi-ocr CLI or an HTTP API (the CLI relies on the app's local HTTP service, on by default). Windows and Linux only. - [Pandoc](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/pandoc.md): [CLI] Universal document converter between dozens of formats including Markdown, Word, HTML, LaTeX and EPUB, with templates, citations and Lua filters. PDF output uses LaTeX by default, which you install separately. - [Fabric](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/fabric.md): [CLI] Turns common prompts such as summarizing, extracting insights and rewriting into reusable patterns you pipe text, web pages or YouTube transcripts through, using many model providers or local Ollama. Can also run as a REST API. Run fabric --setup first to configure models. - [Manim](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/manim.md): [CLI] Engine for math and explainer animations in Python (Community Edition, ManimCE): write scenes and render them to video with the manim command, letting agents create teaching and science animations. On macOS install cairo and pkg-config first; formulas need LaTeX. - [DeepTutor](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/deeptutor.md): [CLI] Personalized tutoring system from HKU's HKUDS: build a knowledge base from textbooks for Q&A, step-by-step solutions and quizzes, for teachers and self-learners. The deeptutor command outputs JSON for agents like Claude Code. Needs Python 3.11+, Node.js 20+ and an LLM API key. - [Marker](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/marker.md): [CLI] Converts PDFs, images, PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, EPUB and more into Markdown, JSON or HTML, preserving tables, formulas and layout, with optional LLM help for higher accuracy. Needs Python 3.10+ and PyTorch; large-scale commercial use of the model weights needs a paid license. - [PDFMathTranslate](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/pdfmathtranslate.md): [CLI] Translates full PDF papers while preserving formulas, charts and layout (command pdf2zh), outputting monolingual and side-by-side bilingual PDFs. Uses Google Translate by default and can switch to DeepL, OpenAI and others; also runs as an MCP server. - [OCRmyPDF](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/ocrmypdf.md): [CLI] Adds a searchable, copyable text layer to scanned PDFs, with automatic deskew, rotation and size optimization, outputting PDF/A by default. Built on Tesseract, supports 100+ languages and runs fully locally. - [Dexter](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/dexter.md): [CLI] Financial research terminal agent, like Claude Code for finance: breaks company research questions into steps, pulls financial statements and market data, and self-checks before answering. Needs Bun, a model API key and a Financial Datasets API key; for learning and research only. - [calibre](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/calibre.md): [CLI] Open-source e-book manager whose command-line tools (ebook-convert, ebook-meta, calibredb) batch-convert between EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, DOCX and more and manage library metadata. The install command is Linux-only; on macOS and Windows use the installer. - [WhisperX](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/whisperx.md): [CLI] Fast speech transcription built on faster-whisper, with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization, suited to meeting notes and subtitles. Diarization needs a Hugging Face token; GPU acceleration needs CUDA. - [anydoc](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/anydoc.md): [CLI] From Firecrawl: converts Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, EPUB, RTF and more into clean Markdown locally in milliseconds, keeping headings, tables, footnotes and formulas so agents can read attachments. Needs Node.js; optional Firecrawl cloud OCR for scans uploads the whole file. - [Buzz](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/buzz.md): [CLI] Offline speech transcription and translation based on Whisper; audio never leaves your machine. buzz add exports lectures, interviews and meeting recordings to TXT, SRT or VTT. pip install needs Python 3.12 and FFmpeg; a desktop app is also available. Check transcripts manually. - [notebooklm-py](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/notebooklm-py.md): [CLI] Unofficial Python library and CLI for driving Google NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook): bulk-import sources, ask cited questions, and generate and download podcasts, videos, slides, quizzes and flashcards. Ships an agent skill. Relies on undocumented APIs and needs a Google sign-in. - [olmOCR](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/olmocr.md): [CLI] AI2's tool for converting PDFs and scans to Markdown with a vision LLM, handling equations, tables, handwriting and multi-column layouts, suited to bulk digitizing papers and archives. Local runs need an NVIDIA GPU with 12GB+ VRAM; otherwise use a paid OpenAI-compatible remote endpoint. - [RenderCV](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/rendercv.md): [CLI] Write your resume in YAML and render a cleanly typeset PDF from the command line: multiple themes, fine control of margins, colors and fonts, strict field validation and multi-language support. A companion agent skill is available. Needs Python 3.12+. - [Harper](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/harper.md): [CLI] Automattic's offline English grammar checker: checks spelling, grammar and word choice locally in milliseconds without sending your text anywhere. Homebrew installs harper-cli for batch-checking files (still experimental) and harper-ls for editors. English only. - [DVC](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/dvc.md): [CLI] Version datasets and models the way Git versions code: data lives in remote storage like S3 or GCS while versions are tracked in your Git repo. Also offers reproducible pipelines and local experiment tracking, rerunning only the steps affected by a change. - [ms-swift](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/ms-swift.md): [CLI] ModelScope's official training framework for LLMs and multimodal models: the swift command covers pretraining, fine-tuning, RL, inference, evaluation, quantization and deployment for 600+ text and 400+ multimodal models, with Megatron parallelism and a web UI. Usually needs a GPU. - [monolith](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/monolith.md): [CLI] Bundles a whole web page with its CSS, images, fonts and scripts into a single HTML file that opens offline exactly as it looked, good for archiving pages or handing them to an agent for offline analysis. It does not run JavaScript, so pre-render dynamic pages with a headless browser. - [Trae Agent](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/trae-agent.md): [CLI] ByteDance's open-source, general software engineering agent: trae-cli edits files and runs commands from natural language, supports multiple model providers and MCP, and records full execution trajectories. Transparent design suits agent research and customization. Needs your own model API key. - [Datasette](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/datasette.md): [CLI] Publishes SQLite databases as browsable, queryable web pages and JSON APIs, with SQL queries, metadata and plugins, and deploys to Cloud Run and other platforms with datasette publish. Great for data exploration and data journalism. Needs Python 3.10+. - [Feynman](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/feynman.md): [CLI] Open-source research agent: one command runs literature reviews, deep research, paper reviews, paper-code consistency checks and replication plans, searching arXiv, PubMed and more with sources recorded. Good for grad students writing reviews. Run feynman setup to sign in to a model provider. - [BabelDOC](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/babeldoc.md): [CLI] PDF translation CLI for research papers that preserves formulas and layout as much as possible, producing bilingual side-by-side or translation-only PDFs. Needs an OpenAI-compatible API (local Ollama works too); currently focused on English to Chinese. - [Defuddle](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/defuddle.md): [CLI] Extracts the main content of a web page, stripping comments, sidebars, headers and footers, and outputs clean HTML or Markdown with metadata like title, author and publish date, saving tokens when agents read the web. Built for Obsidian Web Clipper by kepano; still in development. - [PaperQA2](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/paper-qa.md): [CLI] High-accuracy retrieval-augmented Q&A over paper PDFs, text and Office documents, filling in citation metadata, checking retractions and attaching traceable sources to answers. Provides the pqa CLI and a Python library. Needs an LLM API key by default; local models can be configured. - [VisiData](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/visidata.md): [CLI] Terminal tool for exploring and wrangling tabular data: opens dozens of formats including CSV, JSON, Excel and SQLite for filtering, sorting, pivots and frequency counts. --batch mode replays actions headlessly or converts file formats. - [OpenCompass](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/opencompass.md): [CLI] Open-source LLM evaluation platform: one opencompass command picks the model and datasets and runs the evaluation across hundreds of benchmarks. Works with local Hugging Face models and API models, with vLLM and LMDeploy for faster inference. - [Jupytext](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/jupytext.md): [CLI] Converts and two-way syncs Jupyter notebooks with plain Python scripts or Markdown, so agents can edit research and teaching notebooks like ordinary text and diffs stay readable. Needs a local Python environment; install with pip. - [arxiv-latex-cleaner](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/arxiv-latex-cleaner.md): [CLI] Cleans a LaTeX project before arXiv submission: removes comments, auxiliary files and unused .tex files and images, and can compress images, so internal notes are not published with the source. From Google Research; installable with Homebrew on macOS. - [Trafilatura](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/trafilatura.md): [CLI] Python library and CLI for extracting main web content: fetches pages, crawls via sitemaps and RSS feeds, strips headers, footers and other noise, and outputs TXT, Markdown, JSON, XML and more with metadata. Also processes downloaded HTML offline. - [Summarize](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/summarize.md): [CLI] One command extracts or summarizes web pages, PDFs, YouTube videos, podcasts and media files, with JSON output. Summaries can use many model APIs, local models or a logged-in Codex or Claude CLI; plain extraction needs no key. Also has a browser sidebar extension. - [Podcastfy](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/podcastfy.md): [CLI] Open-source alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature: turns web pages, PDFs, images, YouTube videos or text into two-host conversational audio, useful for lecture notes or articles. Uses Gemini and OpenAI API keys by default, or local models plus free Edge TTS. - [Argos Translate](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/argos-translate.md): [CLI] Open-source offline machine translation built on OpenNMT, usable as a CLI, Python library or GUI. Download language packages as needed; when no direct model exists it pivots through an intermediate language. Suits text you would rather not upload to the cloud. - [csvkit](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/csvkit.md): [CLI] Veteran suite of CSV command-line tools: in2csv converts Excel and JSON to CSV, csvcut, csvgrep and csvsort filter and sort, csvstat computes statistics, and csvsql runs SQL directly against CSV files. - [Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM) CLI & MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/gemini-notebook-mcp-cli.md): [CLI] Unofficial nlm CLI and MCP server for NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook): bulk-create notebooks, import web pages and docs, and generate audio overviews, quizzes, flashcards, mind maps and slides for teaching and study. Relies on undocumented APIs and a Google sign-in, so it may break. - [Quarto](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/quarto-cli.md): [CLI] Posit's open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc: embed Python, R or Julia code in Markdown or Jupyter notebooks, then quarto render produces HTML, PDF, Word, slides, websites and books. - [Tectonic](https://hebbmind.com/de/cli/tectonic.md): [CLI] Self-contained modern TeX/LaTeX engine based on XeTeX and TeX Live that downloads and caches support files on first build, compiling .tex to PDF in one command without installing a full TeX distribution. Next page: https://hebbmind.com/de/tools.md?page=2&type=cli&profession=research