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• @mhucka - just FYI, the Alfred workflow zothero (https://github.com/deanishe/zothero ) overlaps with some of the functionality you're describing for zoinks (search by field).

  in A new tool to write Zotero select links into PDF files Comment by bookhand January 29, 2021
• Adam - Thanks for clarifying. Since the native metadata extraction is completely opaque, I was generalizing from the fact that PDFs without title pages from essay collections seemed to be more readily recognized than PDFs with those title pages.

  in 2nd page of PDFs for Metadata Comment by bookhand August 1, 2016
• Adam - My apologies. I'd misread the period as part of the line, rather than the search term. That does indeed return 300 or so items, and though for whatever reason some have been OCRd, or even have valid metadata, it's a more reasonable with which…

  in Progress Window "Retrieving Metadata" closes automatically? Comment by bookhand April 17, 2016
• I'm still struggling with this. Is there any way to generate a list of items that Zotero has attempted to retrieve metadata for, and returned "No matching references found"? Thanks.

  in Progress Window "Retrieving Metadata" closes automatically? Comment by bookhand April 15, 2016
• Adam - Many thanks for the suggestion. Either I'm getting something wrong, or the fact that all of the files are links to files, rather than imported into the library, is confusing things. Currently, I'm leaving the regexp search field blank. The se…

  in Progress Window "Retrieving Metadata" closes automatically? Comment by bookhand April 9, 2016