Zotero OCR
By UB-Mannheim zotero-ocr 838 GitHub Stars
Runs OCR with Tesseract on the PDFs selected in Zotero. It can add a new PDF with the recognized text, a note with the text, and hOCR HTML files. Tesseract and pdftoppm must be installed.
To install, save the .xpi file and drag it onto the Plugins window in Zotero (Tools → Plugins). In Firefox, right-click the download link and choose Save Link As. A plugin has full access to your Zotero and your computer, and the index does not review its code before listing it, so install only plugins from developers you trust. More about installing
Zotero compatibility
For version 0.9.7, the release the index read
| Zotero | Declared | Start test | User reports |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Declares all of Zotero 10 | Started Zotero 10.0.6 | None yet |
| 9 | Declares all of Zotero 9 | Started Zotero 9.0.6 | None yet |
| 8 | Declares all of Zotero 8 | Started Zotero 8.0.4 | None yet |
| 7 | Declares all of Zotero 7 | Started Zotero 7.0.32 | None yet |
Declared range: Zotero 6.999 to 10.*. How the index reads plugins
Tried version 0.9.7 on Zotero? Report what you found:
Details
- Plugin id
zotero-ocr@bib.uni-mannheim.de- Manifest description
- Zotero Plugin for OCR
- GitHub description
- Zotero Plugin for OCR
- Archived on GitHub
- No
- Source code at the repository's top level
- Yes
- Repository created
- 2018-10-25
- Release read by the index
- 0.9.7, published 2026-10-19
- Releases with an .xpi
- 22
- Open issues and pull requests
- 9
- Host of update.json
- raw.githubusercontent.com
- Menus and settings in
- English (United States), French (France)
Overrides
The index corrects, fills in, or replaces these upstream facts.
| Field | Upstream value | Override value | For version | Used | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
description | Manifest: Zotero Plugin for OCR GitHub: Zotero Plugin for OCR | Runs OCR with Tesseract on the PDFs selected in Zotero. It can add a new PDF with the recognized text, a note with the text, and hOCR HTML files. Tesseract and pdftoppm must be installed. | every version | yes | Drawn from the opening and the Prerequisites section of README.md. The upstream has no English description beyond the name: the manifest description and the GitHub About text, "Zotero Plugin for OCR", only repeat it. |
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