searchable PDF - individual batches
Hello all
Does Zotero read individual searchable PDFs or do I have to apply catch-words?
I have a research project going over many years and would like to scan the lot to make it available to others?
I am new to this and think Zotero is a very good option to store my searchable PDFs
Thanking you in advance
Does Zotero read individual searchable PDFs or do I have to apply catch-words?
I have a research project going over many years and would like to scan the lot to make it available to others?
I am new to this and think Zotero is a very good option to store my searchable PDFs
Thanking you in advance
Zotero automatically indexes PDFs and allows you to search them.
https://www.zotero.org/support/searching#pdf_full-text_indexing
What I am hoping to learn is : can it be possible to search the text of “text searchable PDF’s contained in Zotero?
Thanking you for assistance
To be more precise :
1. I plan to create searchable PDFs using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software so they are searchable for phrases and words
2. Can I store multiple PDFs like that in my Zotero library?
3. From the first searchable PDF onwards, do I need to paginate them (eg PDF #1 starts from page 1 - page 40, and PDF#2 starts from page 41 - page 91 etc) - so that when searching a page number is linked to each 'hit' ?
4. Can I then search for text and phrases (eg 'branch pruning') over the entirety of the individual PDFs contained within Zotero?
5. If the PDFs are paginated (per #3 above), would the search results be collated into a single list (in Word?) that shows page numbers from the multiple PDFs, or collated into multiple lists that shows page numbers from each of the PDFs --- or how?
There are plans to show search results in context in the medium-term, but I don't think these are advanced enough to say anything about pagination.