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Add ability to add PDF to Docs object from Zotero Clipboard Data

Open malekinho8 opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

In Zotero, you can select a publication entry (or multiple) and press CTRL+SHIFT+C to copy the BibTex data for each highlighted publication to your clipboard. This is handy because these BibTex files contain both the citation data, was well as the absolute paths to the PDF file on your computer.

It would be nice to have a method, perhaps for the Docs class, to load PDFs and add them to the Docs from the Zotero Bibtex data in the user's clipboard (rather than finding the paths of files manually)

malekinho8 avatar Apr 16 '23 07:04 malekinho8

One option is to put all of those entries into a new collection in your Zotero library. You can then pass the collection name as a parameter to .iterate() to only use those entries.

MilesCranmer avatar Apr 21 '23 22:04 MilesCranmer

Hi @malekinho8 do you think this issue is resolved? And thanks @MilesCranmer for your contributions here

jamesbraza avatar Sep 11 '24 18:09 jamesbraza