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- | ====== PDF Fulltext | + | ====== PDF Full-Text |
- | Zotero 1.0 RC 1 and higher include support for fulltext indexing of PDF documents. | + | Zotero uses tools from the [[https://www.xpdfreader.com/ |
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- | PDF fulltext indexing currently requires an external program to convert embedded text in PDF files into plaintext cache files. By default, | + | |
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- | ====== Basic Installation ====== | + | |
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- | Customized, platform-specific versions of pdftotext and pdfinfo can be downloaded and installed automatically through the Zotero preferences. | + | |
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- | After installing the tools, new snapshots should automatically be indexed when added to the Library. Existing attachments can be indexed via the Zotero prefs. | + | |
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- | Note that PDF fulltext indexing will not work with files that contain only images, though some image-based PDFs also include a hidden layer of searchable text.((As of March 28, 2007, [[http:// | + | |
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- | ====== Advanced Installation ====== | + | |
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- | Zotero | + | |
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- | Users wishing to install the Xpdf tools manually (or on platforms for which we haven' | + |