Best ways to embed metadata in PDFs

Hi All

Not really a question about Zotero per se, but rather about how to embed metadata in my organization's PDFs so they make good Zotero entries with drag and drop.

From what I can see, neither InDesign or Acrobat can do it. So what kind of app is needed to create the right metadata, and how do I attach it to the PDF?

Thanks!

Caspar
  • Zotero doesn't use PDF metadata at all. (It's usually very low quality and not worth it.) To help Zotero's PDF metadata retrieval, the best approach is to place an identifier like a DOI, ISBN, or ArXiV on the first few pages of the PDF. If the document doesn't have one, then Zotero will search for the full text of the document using its lookup service. To try to ensure that that returns good results, be sure that wherever you host these PDFs on the web exposes high quality metadata: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata
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