About LaTeX Formatter

What it is

LaTeX Formatter is a pre-submission checker for academic papers. It detects and fixes the formatting problems that make a paper look broken even when it compiles - figures overflowing the column, tables wider than the page, floats on the wrong page, overflowing equations - and verifies the DOIs in your bibliography against CrossRef.

The fixes are deterministic and rule-based, not AI-generated. The tool parses your actual LaTeX, measures against the real column geometry of your target venue, and returns a corrected file with a plain-English changelog explaining every change. Your content and meaning never change unpredictably.

Who built it

LaTeX Formatter was built by Ahmed Sleem, a robotics engineer who writes and submits LaTeX papers - and has spent enough late nights fighting figure placement and column overflow before a deadline to want a tool that just fixes it.

That hands-on experience shapes the product: it is opinionated about real venue geometry (IEEE, NeurIPS, CVPR, Springer and more), it respects the difference between a conference paper and a thesis, and it refuses to guess - if it cannot verify something, it says so rather than inventing a fix.

Why deterministic, not AI

A language model can suggest LaTeX changes, but it reads source text rather than rendering your PDF, so it cannot see that a figure overflows, and its output varies between runs. LaTeX Formatter is built on a fixed set of rules so the same input always produces the same, auditable result. We use an LLM only for the optional “explain your problem” feature - never to rewrite your paper.

Contact

Questions, feedback, or a formatting case we should handle better? Reach the team at ahmedsleem8843@gmail.com.