Upgrade StorageNeed for OCR plug-in
It appears that nothing is happening with Zotero OCR in preparation for version 7. The ability to OCR from within Zotero is a great feature, especially now that the Zotero Reader is making it possible for people to let go of external PDF tools. I hope another developer will take up the challenge to create a way to OCR PDFs in Zotero 7 if the Zotero OCR is going defunct.
Zotero needs to handle non-ocred pdf files with ease.
Because even if i use most advanced tools to create an OCRed pdf and believe me i tried on windows and linux. Handwritten or similar documents (old, damaged real word papers like newspapers, pdfs with created by old fonts etc..) wouldn't give wanted results.
Literally i created a trained tesseract language file for this purpose,
Zotero shouldn't let me do that. Zotero should't allow me to waste my time with this.
I shouldn't spend much time to created a trained tesseract language file to scan a handwritten pdf document instead of reading it in Zotero. So i gived up trying that.
At the end if zotero or any plugin developer would created a plugin for ocr purpose. It would be limited and wouldn't give best results without lots options like skewing, unpapering, cleaning, rotating etc.. it would use tesseract mostly and tesseract doesn't give me good enough results, even i used custom language file.
So my humble opinion and suggestion for developers of zotero, draw straight lines with attirbute of notes and tags. if i underline a word with draw tool, i can write what it is in note section and i can find it in left panel easily. By the way that line need to be straight so we need to have draw straight line option and it shouldn't create an image file.