

When you right-click and OCR the file, you'll see a pop-up terminal windows appear, and eventually that will pass you to a second window where you can watch it start iterating through the documents.īy default, the plug-in creates a bunch of other attachments for the item, like a Note file and some other stuff. Not entirely elegant, but it works, and it's free! So I'm very thankful for it no matter how it works.)

You just have to dump all that junk in your Zotero folder. (On this point, I must say that I think it would be super nice if the plug-in would allow you to specify a path for the Poppler files, just like it does for the Tesseract executable, but for whatever reason that's not an issue. The first time you run the plug-in, Windows will ask you if you're sure you want to run the executable.
#Tesseract ocr download mac .dll#
dll files into the C:\Program Files (x86)\Zotero folder. Then you have to unzip all the contents, go into the unzipped poppler- > lib folder, and then drag and drop both pdftoppm.exe and ALL of the. You need to click the little "Release xxxxx" link with the tag on the right side of the screen. This is the best place to download Poppler for Windows, because it comes with all the DLLs. If you have the 32-bit version for whatever reason, it's probably in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe". In my case, I installed the 64-bit version, and the Tesseract path was "C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe". Next your way through the installer.) You need to set the path for Tesseract in the Tools > Zotero OCR preferences. Just install with all the default options. (It doesn't seem to matter whether you install the latest 5.0 alpha or the 4.1 version-though I found version 5 seems to be faster-nor does it seem to matter whether you use the 32-bit or 64-bit version.
