Can zotero search notes added inside pdf?
Hi,
I'm thinking of adding notes directly inside PDFs. However, when Zotero runs a full-text search through PDFs, will it search those notes as well? If it doesn't do it by default, is there a way it can be made to do it? Thanks!
I'm thinking of adding notes directly inside PDFs. However, when Zotero runs a full-text search through PDFs, will it search those notes as well? If it doesn't do it by default, is there a way it can be made to do it? Thanks!
http://www.jlegewie.com/zotfile.html
I don't believe pdftotext, the tool Zotero uses for pdf indexing, reads annotations, so no to the indexing question (though I'm only 80% sure - you'd have to test this yourself).
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5542
It seems like PDF comments should be the *easiest* thing for pdftotext to extract from a PDF file. (See agreement from noksagt here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7386/search-comments-in-pdfs/ ). If Zotfile can do this, presumably it's possible for Zotero to do it to, although this might require Zotero to run pdf2text *and* pdf.js, which could be cumbersome. I'd very much like to see this solved if possible.
See also development on "Leela": https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142309