Open-source OCR plugin for Zotero that turns scanned PDFs into searchable references.
Zotero OCR is an OCR plugin for Zotero that calls OCR tools to add a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs. It suits processing scanned papers, textbooks, reports and PDF documents whose text cannot be copied.
Use cases: Zotero plugin, PDF OCR, scanned literature, searchable PDFs, reference management
Note: Usually requires configuring Tesseract or another OCR back end; recognition quality depends on scan quality and the language model.