"add a note from annotations" it's not working well

mjstefonisoto · 2025-09-28T02:16:28+00:00

Hi, i just want developers to now "add a note from annotations" it's not working well. I use Zotero many years, and i love that option for work all the text i read, cause i copy and paste in Obsidian, and there i organize my citations for to write.
The problem is that now many errors appear in the annotations that are extracted from the text.
I'm from Chile, and my english it's not very good, but i hope this messege reach the developer. If any can help my, i would appreciate too much. Thaks.

dstillman · 2025-09-28T02:40:34+00:00

This sounds like a misunderstanding. If you're talking about the extracted text in annotations, that doesn't really have anything to do with the "Add Note from Annotations" feature specifically — that feature is just adding the text and comments of annotations to notes. It's not extracting anything.

You can see the extracted text in the Annotations tab of the left sidebar in the reader. If there's a problem with text there, that's going to be PDF-specific, and you should link to a PDF for which you're seeing it.

mjstefonisoto · 2025-09-28T12:35:10+00:00

Mmm the problem appears in the last days, in many parts the text it's duplicated, like a IA works, before, never do that, i have many Anotations cause i love work with that, and now my wor it's so difficult for that... :( Look the image

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u4865337/fkzl8dx83ux7h7rqc6cn.png

If you see, just in that part, do 5 times the same error, repet the text twice, and never do that before.

dstillman · 2025-09-28T14:26:14+00:00

See my answer above.

mjstefonisoto · 2025-09-28T14:46:06+00:00

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u4865337/ta01h4sawlpbvbqftack.png

The PDF it's fine, you can check in that image

mjthoraval · 2025-09-28T16:12:45+00:00

This is working fine for me in Zotero 8.0-beta.8+4ae1ea1da (64-bit) with the following PDF file:
https://ve.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2739-00632024000200158
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u265723/ckfd9dvuf5vw897fdaej.png

Have you tested generating the highlight and the note with all plugins disabled?
Is the text correct in the left sidebar in the reader?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u265723/urmjm2m4pj0ap0aw6lw8.png

Which version of Zotero and OS are you using?

dstillman · 2025-09-28T20:27:39+00:00

(I'd guess that @mjstefonisoto may have created these annotations in the Android app, which isn't currently as good at extracting text.)

mjthoraval · 2025-09-29T09:53:29+00:00

I can indeed reproduce by making the highlight from the Android app.
Here is the earlier report on this, with the explanation:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/491773/#Comment_491773