error message with pdftotext & pdfinfo

JaneEyre · February 11, 2010

I recently installed the pdftotext and pdfinfo plugins using the button in Preferences. Now, every time I attach a pdf to an item in Zotero, I get two error messages, one after the other. Each error message consists of a popup window with the entire path to one of the files, followed by the statement "The parameter is incorrect." (Report ID 1972914806)

This is more or less just annoying, but it'd be nice not to have to keep getting rid of these popups. Is there any way to fix the problem? Failing that, is there a way to unisstall these plugins?

Thanks!

dstillman · February 12, 2010

You can try deleting the pdf* files in the Zotero data directory, restarting Firefox, and reinstalling them from the Search pane of the Zotero preferences.

You might want to clear your Firefox cache before reinstalling them in case the files were corrupted during downloading.

JaneEyre · February 12, 2010

Thanks so much! I deleted the files and restarted Firefox, and that has gotten rid of the error message. I decided not to reinstall the files so as to avoid any further problems. I really appreciate the help!

dstillman · February 12, 2010

Just to be clear, those files provide full-text search of PDF files.

tommycrock · October 26, 2011

I'm having this problem too (I think also reported here http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7773/). I've tried deleting the 4 pdf* files in the data directory, clearing the firefox cache, restarting firefox and reinstalling as above, but no luck. Any other suggestions?

tommycrock · November 15, 2011

Thanks to Balint42, found your sugegestion here: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/10761/zotero-is-not-indexing/ and it's worked for me.