Unable to extract annotations on web page snapshot

mikedebruyn

I am able to annotate PDFs and extract those annotations so I can move them to Obsidian. My problem occurs when I save a web page, annotate it in my Foxit reader (the same workflow I used for the PDF) then try to extract the annotations. I get an error telling me that it is skipping the extraction because it is "top level, snapshot, or does not exist". I use web pages extensively so I'd love to figure out how to make this work. Any ideas?

dstillman

First, to be clear, Zotero can only extract PDF annotations. If you're saying that you're converting the snapshot to a PDF, the fact that it came from a webpage is irrelevant. All that matters is that it's a PDF.

The attachment also needs to have a parent item in Zotero, which you'll likely need to create manually in the case of a PDF you create yourself, since it's unlikely that Zotero will be able to retrieve metadata for it. See Adding PDFs and Other Files.