I might be asking too much. I want to get references from a pdf paper into Zotero. So I cut and pasted them into chatgpt, had it create .ris with them, control-c, and in Zotero, imported by clipboard.

It seemed to work great, but the individual items don't show the option "fetch metadata", and when I choose several and ask it to find pdfs, it can't do that either even though the citations aren't old, and several are open access.

I can add the pdfs manually, but the whole point was to create a bulk process. Any reason why Zotero can't find these? No DOIs, but that doesn't always seem necessary.