Zotero plugins I use
The name “Zotero” is loosely based on the Albanian (yes, Albanian) word zotëroj, meaning “to acquire, to master,” as in learning.
In summary:
Better Bibtex (BBT)
Check out their website.
Lets you auto-export a collection to a .bib file.
Useful for compiling with LaTeX locally.
Zutilo
Check out their GitHub repository.
Lets you copy the Zotero URIs or IDs for all kinds of items. Useful for when you want to directly link to a PDF or item.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated (as of 2026-02-20)
and you have to download
an .xpi of a beta version.
Better Notes for Zotero
Check out their GitHub repository.
Adds an outline (table of contents) to the note editor, note templates, and more export options.
Zotero Focused Mode
Check out their GitHub repository.
Hides the tab bar and, optionally, the annotation bar when reading a document.
Keyboard shortcut is F11 on Windows and Linux, or Ctrl+Cmd+F on Mac.
Zotero OCR
Check out their GitHub repository.
Creates an OCRed PDF using Tesseract OCR and pdftoppm1.
It could be somewhat difficult to set up if you’re not a techie, but then again: you’re trying to OCR a PDF.
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“Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap (PPM) converter”. You’re welcome. ↩︎