The Question Paper portal of IIT Kharagpur

Visit : www.papercop.in

#How it all happened?

Step 1 :

• Dump all the papers from the library site. ( Simply mirror the site)
• Rename all the papers with the subject numbers for uniformity and search purposes. ( Using the script "threemasters.py" )
• Manually rename some papers which are left out because of exceptions

Step 2:

• Make encoded data to be used to determine the subjects in a particular semester of particular department.
• We used pickle files to store data.
• Each pickle files contains a list of lists corresponding to every department. (Code not available)

#How it works?

• It processes the input ( Roll number) for all the requred fields i.e Department and Semester number.
• Uses this information to load the corresponding pickle file.
• Use the semester number to obtain the list of subjects in that semester.
• Call "papercop.py" to do the rest.
• Rest: copy requred files into temporary directory, zip it and output it to the user as an attachment.

#Example:

• Input: "12MA20007"
• Pickle file required : "MA2.pickle"
• Semester number = (14-(12))*2 + 2(Spring Semster)
• Obtains list = ['Subject 1.pdf', 'Subject 2.pdf'] Do the rest.