Turn scanned PDFs, old papers and archival materials into searchable, copyable and manageable literature files.
Merge, split, rotate or reorder scanned PDFs so each file has a clear structure.
Fix page order and orientation before running OCR.
Add a text layer to scanned PDFs so they support search, copying and full-text indexing.
Choose the OCR language pack that matches Chinese, Japanese or English documents.
Compress OCR'd PDFs, remove blank pages, add bookmarks or optimise the format.
Don't reduce image quality so much that later reading suffers.
Import the processed PDFs into Zotero and complete the title, author, year and journal information.
Older scanned papers may need metadata added manually.
Add tags and reading notes by research topic to make later retrieval easier.
Create a small set of core tags by topic, method, region and importance.
