Importing the references from a PDF files

beogl

Dear Zotero,

Sometimes I have a PDF files with a lot of references that I want to explore. Is there any way I can import these references automatically from the PDF file so I can explore them more easily?

Gracile

Short answer: no
but... http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_formatted_bibliographies

See also: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/27815/how-to-enter-all-the-references-of-a-single-articlepaper-to-zotero/

beogl

Thanks for the information, Gracile.

I tried cb2Bib, but it only gave me the reference to the PDF file itself. Is that perhaps all it can do?

I wrote down another way which I found to be rather convenient:

Working with references in PDF files | From Some Psychologists http://fromsomepsychologists.wordpress.com/tips-and-tricks/working-with-references-in-pdf-files/

(My perspective is a bit different than in the discussion you link to. I want to understand the article in the PDF file and check the references, i.e. I do not want to cite them, but perhaps check if they are correctly used.)