diff --git a/docs/source/users/index.md b/docs/source/users/index.md
index 1556cc91c..2906fc074 100644
--- a/docs/source/users/index.md
+++ b/docs/source/users/index.md
@@ -464,6 +464,13 @@ use the `-a` or `--all-files` option.
 /learn -a <directory>
 ```
 
+### Learning arXiv files
+`/learn` command also provides downloading and processing papers from the [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/) repository. You will need to install the `arxiv` python package for this feature to work. Run `pip install arxiv` to install the `arxiv` package.
+
+```
+/learn -r arxiv 2404.18558
+```
+
 ### Additional chat commands
 
 To clear the chat panel, use the `/clear` command. This does not reset the AI model; the model may still remember previous messages that you sent it, and it may use them to inform its responses.
diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/chat_handlers/learn.py b/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/chat_handlers/learn.py
index f9348a21f..0f10b0147 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/chat_handlers/learn.py
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/chat_handlers/learn.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Coroutine, List, Optional, Tuple
 
 from dask.distributed import Client as DaskClient
-from jupyter_ai.document_loaders.directory import get_embeddings, split
+from jupyter_ai.document_loaders.directory import arxiv_to_text, get_embeddings, split
 from jupyter_ai.document_loaders.splitter import ExtensionSplitter, NotebookSplitter
 from jupyter_ai.models import (
     DEFAULT_CHUNK_OVERLAP,
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
         self.parser.add_argument("-d", "--delete", action="store_true")
         self.parser.add_argument("-l", "--list", action="store_true")
+        self.parser.add_argument(
+            "-r", "--remote", action="store", default=None, type=str
+        )
         self.parser.add_argument(
             "-c", "--chunk-size", action="store", default=DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE, type=int
         )
@@ -110,6 +113,30 @@ async def process_message(self, message: HumanChatMessage):
             self.reply(self._build_list_response())
             return
 
+        if args.remote:
+            remote_type = args.remote.lower()
+            if remote_type == "arxiv":
+                try:
+                    id = args.path[0]
+                    args.path = [arxiv_to_text(id, self.root_dir)]
+                    self.reply(
+                        f"Learning arxiv file with id **{id}**, saved in **{args.path[0]}**.",
+                        message,
+                    )
+                except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
+                    self.log.error(e)
+                    self.reply(
+                        "No `arxiv` package found. " "Install with `pip install arxiv`."
+                    )
+                    return
+                except Exception as e:
+                    self.log.error(e)
+                    self.reply(
+                        "An error occurred while processing the arXiv file. "
+                        f"Please verify that the arxiv id {id} is correct."
+                    )
+                    return
+
         # Make sure the path exists.
         if not len(args.path) == 1:
             self.reply(f"{self.parser.format_usage()}", message)
diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/document_loaders/directory.py b/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/document_loaders/directory.py
index b8f9de3bb..e493fb385 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/document_loaders/directory.py
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/document_loaders/directory.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import hashlib
 import itertools
 import os
+import tarfile
+from datetime import datetime
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import List
 
@@ -10,6 +12,51 @@
 from langchain_community.document_loaders import PyPDFLoader
 
 
+def arxiv_to_text(id: str, output_dir: str) -> str:
+    """Downloads and extracts single tar file from arXiv.
+    Combines the TeX components into a single file.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    id : str
+        id for the paper, numbers after "arXiv" in arXiv:xxxx.xxxxx
+
+    output_dir : str
+        directory to save the output file
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    output: str
+        output path to the downloaded TeX file
+    """
+
+    import arxiv
+
+    outfile = f"{id}-{datetime.now():%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M}.tex"
+    download_filename = "downloaded-paper.tar.gz"
+    output_path = os.path.join(output_dir, outfile)
+
+    paper = next(arxiv.Client().results(arxiv.Search(id_list=[id])))
+    paper.download_source(filename=download_filename)
+
+    with tarfile.open(download_filename) as tar:
+        tex_list = []
+        for member in tar:
+            if member.isfile() and member.name.lower().endswith(".tex"):
+                tex_list.append(member.name)
+                tar.extract(member, path="")
+
+    with open(output_path, "w") as w:
+        for f in tex_list:
+            with open(f) as tex:
+                w.write(tex.read())
+            os.remove(f)
+
+    os.remove(download_filename)
+
+    return output_path
+
+
 # Uses pypdf which is used by PyPDFLoader from langchain
 def pdf_to_text(path):
     pages = PyPDFLoader(path)
@@ -50,6 +97,7 @@ def path_to_doc(path):
     ".txt",
     ".html",
     ".pdf",
+    ".tex",  # added for raw latex files from arxiv
 }
 
 
diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai/pyproject.toml b/packages/jupyter-ai/pyproject.toml
index ec7959975..4328c9aca 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai/pyproject.toml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ test = [
 
 dev = ["jupyter_ai_magics[dev]"]
 
-all = ["jupyter_ai_magics[all]", "pypdf"]
+all = ["jupyter_ai_magics[all]", "pypdf", "arxiv"]
 
 [tool.hatch.version]
 source = "nodejs"