Adding OCR layers to your Zotero library PDF items for Metadata extraction and indexing

Zotero is a cross-platform literature manager that is able to sync to a remote server and across multiple user devices. There are many alternatives available, each with strengths and weaknesses, but I am currently using Zotero to manage my literature because it is free and works with WebDAV for additional free storage. In this article I will describe why optical character recognition (OCR) is important for Zotero and suggest a way to add OCR to existing items in a Zotero library....

November 30, 2018 · Simon

Course of Theoretical Physics available online

A collection of classic theoretical physics books, the Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau, Lifshitz, Pitaevskii and Berestetskii (English edition), is available online courtesy of the Internet archive. It seems that the last two books in the 10 book series are not available, perhaps because their later publication dates meaning they have a longer copyright term. For a discussion on the copyright details of the books and the original source for my links see this Reddit thread....

September 23, 2014 · Simon