feature request: zotero integration about paperai HOT 6 OPEN

Following up here, would you be able to explain the benefits of Zotero? What are the ways Python can integrate with it? Licensing? I will only integrate with projects that are FOSS and permissively licensed for a number of reasons.

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Following up here, would you be able to explain the benefits of Zotero?

Yes, happy to. Zotero is FOSS, is actively developed and has the largest user-base in terms of opensource reference management https://github.com/zotero. It is released under the Affero General Public License (AGPL). Consequently it also has strongest plugin ecosystem in the ref management sphere as far as I know.

The main benefit of using Zotero is that when researchers download new articles during a web browsing session, Zotero browser plugin ensures very neat extraction and maintenance of reference metadata and pdf. Users are also able to monitor and modify references if this extraction fails through API or the user interface. Additionally Zotero can also store and organize "related" files like notes written by the user in regards to an article and attach supplements.

What are the ways Python can integrate with it?

There is a python interface for Zotero maintained here: https://pyzotero.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I also believe that developers can access the sqlite database that Zotero relies on: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/direct_sqlite_database_access

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bump, very interested

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