paper.tex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\title{A paper}
\author{}
\date{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

This is a paper. Here is a figure:

\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figure/figure1.pdf}
\end{center}

And a table:

\input{table/table1.tex}


\end{document}