Import from Papers

Plaass · October 6, 2018

Hallo,

i am frustrated with the bad performance of papers and would like to change to zotero. Is there a way to import the papers library to zotero without loosing all anootations and folders? Or at least to import the pdfs keeping the metdata?

Thanks

LiborA · October 7, 2018

If you are able export your bibliography in same standardized format, the you can import it into the Zotero - see https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_standardized_formats

LiborA · October 7, 2018

You can also see this discussion https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/67677/advice-on-import-of-large-papers3-formerly-mekentosj-papers-library

daeh · July 10, 2019

I ran into a bunch of issues when trying to import my Papers library (duplicate PDFs, missing supplementary information, etc.). I made a rough python script to clean up some of the biggest offenders. Might be a useful starting point for someone else https://gist.github.com/daeh/abc6d46d897b58a657699fa1a408573e