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• I hope this is the right place to put any Zotfile discussions. Please forgive the duplication, all who have already seen it on the Zotero add-in discussion. Here's the gist: Much of my research involves using PDFs that are not searchable. They …

  in ZotFile - Advanced PDF management for Zotero Comment by DonnaCoxBaker June 4, 2012
• I've found the OCR recognition in Adobe Professional so awful on the old historical documents that it's never safe to highlight the text. Cleaning it up would take ten times longer than retyping it. (If they can improve OCR on old fonts, many of us …

  in Zotfile--Extracted Sticky Notes need original document's page numbers Comment by DonnaCoxBaker June 3, 2012
• It's inelegant, but here's what I'm doing. The field will accept a single long string, so long as there are no spaces or punctuation. I'm using "yyy1650zzz1833" to mean originally published in 1650, but using the 1833 edition. Since I'm unlikely to …

  in Citing original date together edition date [1914] 2012. Is it possible? Comment by DonnaCoxBaker May 28, 2012
• I think I've solved it myself. I don't think Zotfile likes the PDF format these particular files had been created in. When I opened them in Adobe Reader and did "Save As-->PDF" and tried to extract from the new file, it worked fine.

  in Zotfile--Extractions have stopped working Comment by DonnaCoxBaker April 10, 2012
• Thanks so much! That makes sense.

  in Continuous Loop in SugarSync File Transfer Comment by DonnaCoxBaker March 7, 2012