OSX Zotero - Search pane w/o PDF installer/option

kriesmer1979
Hi folks,
i am running Zotero 5.0.45 on an OSX 10.13.4 (17E199).
I was puzzled why my PDFs won't get indexed. I googled and found the advice to install PDF tools via Preferences > Search pane. As I did on a matching Windows machine.
But in OSX there is no such PDF option. If I could, I would post a screenshot.
Please see the matching advice on https://www.zotero.org/support/pdf_fulltext_indexing

I downloaded the XPDF tools and moved them as suggested.
pdfinfo version 4.00 and pdftotext version 4.00 are in the Zotero Data path.
With the pdf shell script from the advice website.
PDF tools in Zotero data path are executable.

Somebody can help?
Many thanks in advance.

K.
  • dstillman
    That page is out of date — the PDF tools are now bundled with Zotero, and you should delete anything you added manually.

    Can you provide a Debug ID for adding a PDF that you think should be indexed but isn't?
  • kriesmer1979
    Hi dstillmann,

    (de)Bug ID is 749712069.

    BR
    K.
  • dstillman
    That's a Report ID. We need a Debug ID.
  • kriesmer1979
    Like this? D1062495?
  • dstillman
    Yes, but that shows a PDF being successfully indexed.
  • kriesmer1979
    Hi there,
    but searching for a word from the indexed pdf does not provide any matching search results...
  • adamsmith
    how exactly are you searching?
  • dstillman
    If you're using the search field in the toolbar, you'll need to set it to "Everything" to find full-text matches.
  • kriesmer1979
    Hi there,
    @adamsmith: I simply put in my search phrase or keyword in the very field.
    @dstillman: It is set to "Everything". Search takes rather long; but does not display the (intended) article. In this case intended as I am trying to validate...
  • dstillman
    Search takes rather long; but does not display the (intended) article. In this case intended as I am trying to validate...
    I'm not quite sure what you mean by this.

    If you add this PDF, 2) wait a few seconds for it to retrieve metadata and index the PDF, and 3) search for "computationally" in Everything mode, are saying it doesn't find the result? If not, can you provide a Debug ID for all of that?
  • kriesmer1979
    @dstillman: The suggested PDF + keyword do work in a sense of "i can retrieve the very article" from the search results by the very keyword.
    But what puzzles me: Some PDFs (with plain text (copy+paste-able; no scanned or ocr'ed or no DRM or no CopyProtection) don't. Does it need to "dive" in deeper in the world of PDFs?
    No matter what: Sorry to bother and thanks for taking care. Appreciate this.
  • dstillman
    edited May 1, 2018
    Right, so that's working.

    Then we'd have to see a Debug ID for one that doesn't work, including the saving and the search. The Debug ID you shared above shows the file being indexed, but it doesn't show what you're searching for.
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