Upgrade StorageScispace Integration (Add-On) in Zotero
Scispace (https://typeset.io) is another interesting and very useful tool. Integration between Zotero and Scispace will provide tremendous benefits. Are there any other Scispace Add-Ons or Zotero Add-Ons that have the same functionality as Scispace?
Also there are couple of plugins to connect to openAI API and search within the document etc.
there is a zotero plugin from scite.ai and zoterogpt that uses openAI API to directly chat with papers but ymmv
To use it
InScispace click "My Library" (a row of books icon near the top left) > import from Zotero > connect with Zotero > select a or many collections, and bingo it imports all papers that have PDFs and immediately creates summaries of all the TEXT based pdf!
I don't think it imports other citations that do not have files unless they were created on Mend***** but I am not sure. Nope. They are all there. But if there is no file you can't chat with it or get a summary of course.
The Scispace AI writer is pretty amazing.
I wish I could do all this inside Zotero though because I have been using Zotero for years.
I have installed the two best (?) AI plugins, ARIA and PapersGPT both of which connect to an OpenAI api and they are okay.
ARIA currently allows collation of papers e.g. by keyword, but it may not be all that different from using Zotero search currently. It does not yet summarise papers and cannot see their content currently (it did for a while but the developer turned that functionality off until it can be achieved with less API use).
PapersGPT summarizes pdfs but it can be a bit difficult to control on windows 10, and does not seem to add its summarizations into the Zotero database, but it is quicker than uploading to claude and then pasting to a Zotero note because you don't need to leave Zotero. Here is a video showing the issues and what it can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJJqwrDLpt4
Now papersgpt can add its summarizations into the Zotero. It support saving the result to zotero note after chat PDF in zotero, this is a very convenient feature for zotero users.
Papersgpt continuously follows the leaderboards of ChatBot Arena and LiveBench , and continuously integrates the latest powerful LLM models. In the latest version Openrounter is integrated. Google's Gemini 2.5 pro, Meta's Llama 4 , Open AI's gpt Chatgpt 4.5, DeepSeek R1, Gemma 3, claude 3.7 ,QwQ-32B, Mistral ,Marco-o1 are all integrated. Chat algorithms are constantly being optimized, quality and speed of responses have improved. zotero users can try the latest version to chat pdf in zotero.
I will have another go.
I installed the new version (date today 4/17). I pressed on the swirling blue button and an empty papers GPT window appeared. I restarted Zotero and tried again but this time neither the swirly blue icon nor Ctrl Enter do anything in the pdf view.
Cltr Enter in the Library view opens a PDF.
I think that the man issue I had with PapersGPT is that is is designed and optimised for Mac, whereas I am using a PC.
I look forward to the time when I can get Deepseek to summarised inside zotero.
Tim
Thanks for your feedback.
Can you restart the plugin and restart zotero to try it again?
We have done many tests and have not found this problem on our side. In my case it is not an empty window under both library view and pdf file view. And clicking on the little blue storm icon and "Ctrl+Enter" are able to open papersgpt.
Our latest version is v0.1.2. Some users are using this version or its previous version，no users have reported this problem to us so far.
As you are experiencing it here, I think this phenomenon may be an isolated case related to your local computer environment. In order to solve this case, we need to know your windows version, zotero version and papersgpt version. And we need to know the details of your operation procedure. Because this problem needs to be investigated based on your specific environment and situation.