Available for beta testing on iOS: EPUB/snapshot support and PDF metadata retrieval

dstillman
In the beta of Zotero for iOS, we've added two major new features:

1) EPUB/snapshot support: You can now view and annotate EPUBs and webpage snapshots in the built-in reader. This follows the EPUB/snapshot support in Zotero 7, and annotations now sync seamlessly between the desktop app and the iOS app.

2) PDF metadata retrieval: When you save a PDF directly from the browser, share a PDF from another app, or use the Add File option within the app, Zotero for iOS will now automatically attempt to retrieve metadata, just like the desktop app.

If you'd like to try these features, you can join the TestFlight group.

If you encounter any problems, please let us know in a new thread. Be sure to put "iOS" in your thread title and note that you're using the beta.
  • oyvindbs
    This is really cool! Fantastic work.

    It is great that the app supports "open-pdf" links for epubs too! I look forward to the future refinement of the epub reader.
  • introfini
    Great! I've already started using it!
  • foss-
    Thanks so much, these are fantastic improvements. Looking forward to TTS support for PDFs and maybe later epubs and obviously all those features making their way over to Android.
  • ryanwwest
    foss-, I'm hoping for TTS support too (especially on mobile) but wasn't aware of anything beyond desktop Zotero TTS addons. Are you referencing something more than that in 'looking forward to TTS support'?
  • pa_mackens
    You have no idea how huge this is for me! Full Snapshot support on mobile closes a big gap in my whole academic reading-writing system. Reading articles is something i do regularly on my phone and before i had to use Raindrop for reading and highlighting instead, where important input for projects always would end up neglected and left out, because it is the only content stored elsewhere really inconveniently.

    Now full support would of course be the possibility to also create snapshots on mobile, any update on that? Making it a seamless process is probably hard to figure out but there appears to be a simple fix:

    SingleFile exists for IOS Safari, you can create the html, you can also share the html file directly to Zotero, where it will be accessible without metadata. However in the file picker for "Add attachment", html files are not accepted! That could be easily changed, no?

    This would still involve a bit lengthy tapping around, but be totally fine as a preliminary solution to me.
  • ryanwwest
    On Android with Kiwi Browser, the Zotero connector chrome extension works if you have it save the html snapshot to Zotero web. But wrong OS for your use case and Kiwi browser development halted, so this solution won't be viable forever.
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