Keywords to tags conversion not working during drag'n'drop pdf import

d.airola
Hi,

Considering the situation where the Zotero browser Connector cannot help, a PDF import can only be performed by a traditional drag'n'drop.

Within this context, Zotero seems to ignore the keywords embedded in the PDF Info Tags easily extracted by other open source tools like exiftool (see https://exiftool.org/TagNames/PDF.html).

Does exist any workaround for solving this problem?

Thanks
  • adamsmith
    No, Zotero basically ignore XMP metadata (the format tags & other info is written to PDFs) because it's more likely to be useless than useful.
  • d.airola
    Wow, thanks.
    this is really a pity considering that metadata are exactly designed for that purpose and since at least one international standardization entity is issuing worldwide standards by properly use that mode.
  • martynas_b Zotero Team
    @d.airola PDF metadata is often quite rudimentary. From what source that PDF comes from? If publishers are adding high-quality metadata to the PDFs, we might consider importing it.
  • d.airola
    @martynas_b I totally agree that PDF metadata is not the best-in-class solution, but since it is the most basic approach it should be supported by Zotero.

    With regard to the PDF source, I was referring to International Telecommunication Union (aka ITU).
    Please find as follow:
    - a link to a section of ITU-R recommendation https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BT/en
    - a link to the root page of ITU-R recomendations (aggregated by topic): https://www.itu.int/pub/R-REC
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