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