I made an error: is it possible to merge book sections retaining highlights?

timpaul · 2025-04-02T04:34:29+00:00

I made an error and split a book, written by a single author, into sections. I now want to bring the sections back together and, naturally, retian the annotations.

Is that possible within Zotero or is it something I have to do manually?

martynas_b · 2025-04-04T10:44:50+00:00

This is currently not possible with Zotero. However, you can export each PDF along with its annotations, merge them using another tool, and then import the combined file back into Zotero.

timpaul · 2025-04-05T02:09:45+00:00

Thanks very much, @martynas_b , that's very helpful
Warm regards

grahamperrin · 2025-04-05T15:04:55+00:00

If you'd like something open source with a GUI, for the merge, maybe:

PDF Arranger

https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger?tab=readme-ov-file#about

timpaul · 2025-04-05T21:29:31+00:00

Thx @grahamperrin