PreSubmit — venue compliance & submission readiness checker

Final readiness check before submitting to a venue or funding platform. Upload your manuscript and get a prioritized issue list.

What PreSubmit does

Drop or choose your manuscript file (PDF, DOCX, .tex, or plain text), optionally pick a venue — or paste its requirements as a URL or text — and click Run PreSubmit Check.

  • Venue compliance: check the manuscript against a venue profile, a requirements URL, or pasted requirements text.
  • Double-blind heuristics — heuristic anonymity checks (not a compliance guarantee).
  • Bibliography and document structure checks, plus ORCID/DOI sanity checks.
  • Page and abstract limit checks driven by the selected venue profile.
  • Leftover-template-text detection — lorem-ipsum, placeholder author/title, and stray \todo notes.
  • \ref/\label integrity — orphan references and duplicate labels.
  • NeurIPS-style checklist assistant (opt-in, AI, beta) that cross-checks your answers against the manuscript.
  • Issues sorted by severity (errors, then warnings, then info) with per-issue open/fixed/ignored tracking.
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Why this matters

Most desk rejections are avoidable formatting and completeness problems, not the science. PreSubmit is a final readiness pass: upload your manuscript and it returns a prioritized issue list — missing required sections, missing title or abstract, duplicated sentences, overlong sentences, bibliography problems and more — so you fix the mechanical issues before a reviewer ever sees them.

Examples

Prioritized issue list

On a draft missing its front matter, PreSubmit returns findings such as “Missing required section”, “No title detected” and “No authors detected”, grouped by area so you work top-down.

FAQ

What file types can I upload?

LaTeX source and common manuscript formats; a scanned or image-only PDF with no extractable text is detected and reported rather than silently passed.

Is my manuscript stored?

No manuscript text is stored after processing.

Does it guarantee acceptance?

No — it catches mechanical and completeness issues, not the quality or novelty of your research.

Can it check venue-specific rules?

You can supply a venue's requirements and PreSubmit checks against them; without one it applies general submission-readiness checks.

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