How to work with offline documents
I would know how can I work with .pdf and .doc files already on my computer?
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docs and pdfs without text-layer or with failed metadata retrieval: manually create items (or use database like google scholar for that purpose), then drag the file to that item.
http://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata