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• [I'm no technical expert, so I doubt I would be any use on the development of this, but I would very like to +1 this effort as I am creating a catalogue for an archive of music publications, and all that information is currently in Discogs. I can ce…

  in Linking Discogs and Zotero Comment by escdotdot June 1, 2024
• @martynas_b I ran the file through Acrobat's OCR as well as through the Zotero OCR add-on, and both left the file with the same unselectable text areas when viewed in Zotero.

  in Some OCR PDF text not recognised in Zotero Comment by escdotdot December 19, 2022
• I use this plugin, and as I understand it there is no GUI, so no built-in way to track its progress. My workaround is to deselect "Save the intermediate PNGs as well in the folder" in the plugin options. What then happens is that in the folder holdi…

  in Zotero OCR: How to know when it's done? Comment by escdotdot December 9, 2022
• OK, so that one really is a power feature! Thanks again.

  in only first typed letter recognized with 'find-as-you-type' Comment by escdotdot May 18, 2022
• Thank you again, but there seems to be a new problem now. The fix works when I type the letters in a name – it goes to the correct name as expected. But then if I subsequently type the same first letter again, it jumps to the next entry from the cur…

  in only first typed letter recognized with 'find-as-you-type' Comment by escdotdot May 18, 2022
• @dstillman thanks!

  in only first typed letter recognized with 'find-as-you-type' Comment by escdotdot May 10, 2022
• An unexpected change with 6.0.7 is that type-to-search for a set of items with the same author name, rather than just stop at the first entry each time you press a new letter it jumps to the next entry. For instance, I have 5 entries by LaBelle (and…

  in only first typed letter recognized with 'find-as-you-type' Comment by escdotdot May 10, 2022
• Thanks for checking. All good now.

  in Chicago (full-note) titles with forced italics rendered as HTML in subsequent note Comment by escdotdot June 25, 2020
• @adamsmith http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/yaogun-yinyue-rethinking-mainland-chinese-rock-n-roll/C9F3400A0281F3CDE3E309AE318FF612

  in Chicago (full-note) titles with forced italics rendered as HTML in subsequent note Comment by escdotdot June 25, 2020
• @bwiernik @adamsmith thank you, I apologise for unjustly accusing Zotero. The Short Title does indeed have xxx. This entry was added using the Zotero Chrome extension, but I guess the information was provided by the source webpage (Cambridge Core)? …

  in Chicago (full-note) titles with forced italics rendered as HTML in subsequent note Comment by escdotdot June 25, 2020
• thanks for the replies. This is a problem for names that have been romanised (Chinese names, in my case). The romanisation is not as unique as the original Chinese characters (although there might also be people with names using the same Chinese cha…

  in Multiple authors with same name appearing together in bibliography Comment by escdotdot November 12, 2019