Mobile apps on your smartphone or tablet make it easy to capture great pages or paragraphs in a book or article-just be sure to also capture the citation! -) Run it through Adobe Acrobat Professional (or convert it with a similar tool) and now it is a file that can be indexed and searched within Zotero. If you copy an article from a print source it will be an image file that is not searchable. Converting non-PDF documents to PDF makes them searchable. To me, this is the real killer app for Zotero: it creates the database of you. Zotero can search inside attached files that are certain file types, notably OCR'd PDFs (note, you must install the PDF indexer in the Zotero preferences for this to work). Remember if you use a service that uploads your file to convert it, your file is stored on a strange server temporarily - so don't use it with anything that is private! Note: I have not vetted any of the tools below. Libre Office - save a file in PDF format (you can also do this with Microsoft Word if you have Adobe Pro (or other iteration) installed).Note - you must convert it to a Google Doc, and there is a 25 MB limit on files that can be uploaded and converted. Google Docs - Upload your file to Google Docs then download it as a PDF and upload or drag it into Zotero.Be sure to also check out the Tech Store in CUE 305, or online at your My WSU student page (under Quick Links) for other discounted software.
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