search function

shirawil
Hello,
A quick question: are PDF's that are attached to an item searchable in Zotero? I wish to include in my search not only meta data or basic fields but the actual content of the pdf. If so, how do I do it?

Thank you thank you. Love Zotero!

Shira
  • shirawil
    Also, in this regard: can I upload an entire folder to zotero (=my entire research project) and make all its content searchable via the zotero search function? if not, what is the best way to have all my data searchable?

    Thank you so very much.
    Shira
  • heanyong
    I am just wondering if any plan is in place to have a search function for people search.

    Thank you
    HY
  • adamsmith
    @shirawil -
    1) yes, as long as your PDFs have OCRd text (as most PDFs do today)
    2) You can add a large number of files to Zotero at once (either drag&dropping them or using "store copy of file" and select multiple files in the dialog) but not a whole folder. Currently Zotero only indexes/searches pdf, html, and txt, so this won't work for Word or LibreOffice documents

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