Advanced Search does not return all results

danielec94 · 2025-10-27T16:01:24+00:00

When I'm doing an advanced search with Zotero 7 (and also with Zotero 8 beta), I cannot view all the articles and monographs that contain the keywords. I have tried everything, but some articles do not appear. I have also checked that they are indexed.

dstillman · 2025-10-27T16:02:33+00:00

Can you provide some screenshots that show the problem?

danielec94 · 2025-10-29T11:32:33+00:00

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u11632042/l0sx5ekrx4r82pm8e2n9.png
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u11632042/885220z5oe9a6zafahjd.png

danielec94 · 2025-10-29T14:57:59+00:00

And searching with Adobe Acrobat I've found a lot of documents that I have don't found with Zotero.

dstillman · 2025-10-29T17:36:56+00:00

Does it match if you stop at the line break ("National Commission on Libraries and")? Attachment Content is a phrase search, and line parsing in PDFs is an inexact science, particularly for columnar text like that.

If you do that search in Everything mode in the Zotero search bar, without quotes, does it match that attachment?

danielec94 · 2025-10-29T19:25:05+00:00

Yes and yes. Don't work in Advanced Search but with the Search bar work well.

dstillman · 2025-10-29T20:09:49+00:00

Yeah, so it's likely just an issue of the line break. If you email the PDF to support@zotero.org with a link to this thread, we can take a look, but the columns make this difficult.