highlighting not being seen
First off, I am new to this app, so this may just be the learning curve.
I have some articles that I am trying to read for a paper I am writing. As I just got a program for my Mac that lets me do some highlighting (Kurzweil), I had been reading my PFDs on GoodReader while on the go. Now I am back at my computer, ready to start pulling the items I highlighted in PDFs, and Zotero is not seeing them. I tried re-adding the items, thinking that would help. Nope. I tried highlighting in Preview (I don't use Adobe and Preview works great and I have a very small HD). Still no go.
Am I missing something? Shouldn't the highlights be gathered into a note for the item? All the PDFs have a "parent" that is the info Zotero grabbed from the original website, so I should be seeing the highlights, right?
Thanks
Kelsy
I have some articles that I am trying to read for a paper I am writing. As I just got a program for my Mac that lets me do some highlighting (Kurzweil), I had been reading my PFDs on GoodReader while on the go. Now I am back at my computer, ready to start pulling the items I highlighted in PDFs, and Zotero is not seeing them. I tried re-adding the items, thinking that would help. Nope. I tried highlighting in Preview (I don't use Adobe and Preview works great and I have a very small HD). Still no go.
Am I missing something? Shouldn't the highlights be gathered into a note for the item? All the PDFs have a "parent" that is the info Zotero grabbed from the original website, so I should be seeing the highlights, right?
Thanks
Kelsy
The ability to extract notes/highlights from PDFs is not a built-in Zotero feature. It relies on an add-on -- Zotfile: zotfile.com -- that you need to install. Even then, this doesn't happen automatically. You need to manually run "extract metadata".