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On 14.04 Zotero installation version 4.0.26, Zotero doesn't let me index PDF files ('Retrieve metadata for PDF'). It returns: Could not read text from PDF.

I updated Zotero and checked if it has updated pdftotext & pdfinfo installed and it did, however, it was placed in a different directory (/usr/bin), not in Zotero directory (/opt/Zotero).

To overcome this problem, I moved them to Zotero directory, thinking, this might solve the issue, but the same error message appeared.

Now, having that said, I am aware that pdftotext and pdfinfo might come preinstalled with Ubuntu installation and that their reninstallation might fix the issue (as pointed out at Zotero cannot retrieve metadata from PDF). Although, where exactly should I put place them and how exactly are they uninstalled and reinstaled? I think just deleting the files won't do the trick.

Any hints?

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OK, now I understand!...solution was to remove all the pdftotext & pdfinfo files in Zotero directory and re-install them from inside of Preferences/Search option in Zotero Standalone. Now indexing from metadata works. Hope this help anyone in need. Cheers!

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