Retrieve Metadata for PDFs not working
Hello Everyone !
I found Zotero while searching for a reference manager that would import PDFs. I was pleasantly surprised Zotero could even extract metadata from PDFs ! However, I can't get it to work. I use FF 3.5.4 and Zotero 2.0b7.4 on WinXP Pro. I have not been able to extract metadata from a single PDF! All the PDF's I tried (more than 10) were online and available on Google Scholar. Could anyone shed some light on this? Perhaps a workaround? I even submitted my logs and a couple of PDFs to Zotero support to no avail :(
I found Zotero while searching for a reference manager that would import PDFs. I was pleasantly surprised Zotero could even extract metadata from PDFs ! However, I can't get it to work. I use FF 3.5.4 and Zotero 2.0b7.4 on WinXP Pro. I have not been able to extract metadata from a single PDF! All the PDF's I tried (more than 10) were online and available on Google Scholar. Could anyone shed some light on this? Perhaps a workaround? I even submitted my logs and a couple of PDFs to Zotero support to no avail :(
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The way this works is that you post in the forum, including an error ID of a report sent. In 9 out of 10 (at least) cases things get resolved. If not, they'll sometimes ask you to send them a document (though for pdfs a simple link will do - you can also post that link here)
Go to your preferences. In the search tab - what do you see? Are the pdf tools installed - i.e. do you see something like: pdftotext version 3.02 is installed ?
If not that's where the problem is.
Try this one
http://www.samren.org/Research_Papers/doc/ADB%20Remittance%20Study.pdf
this works - if it doesn't, there is something wrong with your settings. If it does, there's something specific about the pdfs you tried.
Yes, I did do all the stuff that is already covered in the forum - including the pdftotext 3.02 being installed.
The PDF you linked to also gives me an error "No matching references found" in the Metadata progress window. Btw, the PDF opens fine after inserting in my library. So what could be wrong in my settings ? I would assume it has something to do with the Google Scholar - Zotero interface?
Try to search for a phrase that's in one of the pdfs to see if the indexing works correctly.
It seems odd that the google scholar search would be wrong - I can't really see how it could be.
Please provide a Debug ID for the retrieval attempt.
Also make sure that "Accept third-party cookies" is enabled in the Privacy pane of the Zotero Firefox preferences.
Forgive me for my naivete :( but I was not planning on using Google Scholar for constructing my bibliography! I use PubMed and it works fine with Zotero.
@Dan I did try GS and it doesnt work for the same citations that work on PubMed! It does not give any error ID. My retrieve metadata error ID was 1265646937.
I could not find a Privacy Pane in Zotero 2.0b7.4 preferences. However, when I set accept third-party cookies in FF everything came together, at last !!!
Thanks Dan and Adam ! Beginning of the end...Endnote
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A search on the forum would have yielded multiple results.
Thanks!
Someone could try to ask google, but I don't know whether they would respond.
or something along those lines? Or maybe something better than a pop-up - but what?
So, +1 for a popup as Adam suggests, with an option to continue or to cancel.
I don't know what the dev team has up their sleeve, but it looks like they have some (I presume) unimplemented ideas for alleviating this issue.