├── .gitignore
├── Import PDFs from Zotero.applescript
└── README.md


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/Import PDFs from Zotero.applescript:
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 1 | set ZoteroFolder to POSIX file "/path/to/zotero/storage"
 2 | set ComparisonDatabase to "your_paper_database"
 3 | 
 4 | tell application "Finder"
 5 | 	
 6 | 	# iterate over all subfolders of ZoteroFolder
 7 | 	repeat with RandomFolder in (get every folder of folder ZoteroFolder)
 8 | 		# iterate over all files within the subfolder
 9 | 		repeat with PaperFile in (get every file of folder (RandomFolder as alias))
10 | 			
11 | 			# store the Posix path of the file for import with Devonthink			
12 | 			set PosixPaperFile to POSIX path of (PaperFile as alias)
13 | 			
14 | 			# check if the file contains '.pdf'
15 | 			if (PaperFile as string) contains ".pdf" then
16 | 				
17 | 				tell application "DEVONthink 3"
18 | 					# import file from Posix path
19 | 					set ImportedFile to (import PosixPaperFile to current group)
20 | 					
21 | 					# get list of similar files
22 | 					set SimilarFiles to compare record ImportedFile
23 | 					
24 | 					# iterate over similar files
25 | 					repeat with Similar in SimilarFiles
26 | 						
27 | 						# SimilarFiles contains the added file itself (score is 1.0)
28 | 						# skip the added file itself (identified by the record ID)
29 | 						if id of Similar is not equal to id of ImportedFile then
30 | 							
31 | 							# if there is at least one record with very high similarity
32 | 							# we delete the file we just added and break
33 | 							if score of Similar is greater than 0.95 then
34 | 								delete record ImportedFile
35 | 								exit repeat
36 | 							end if
37 | 						end if
38 | 					end repeat
39 | 					
40 | 				end tell
41 | 				
42 | 			end if
43 | 			
44 | 		end repeat
45 | 		
46 | 	end repeat
47 | end tell
48 | 


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/README.md:
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 1 | # Import new PDFs from Zotero into DEVONthink
 2 | 
 3 | This AppleScript adds PDFs from Zotero to DEVONthink (only when they are not in the database yet).
 4 | 
 5 | It imports into the current group and compares to a specific database.
 6 | 
 7 | ## Zotero PDFs
 8 | Zotero stores PDF in subfolders with random names. The subfolders are located in the user defined Zotero root -> storage. This setting cannot be changed as far as I know.
 9 | 
10 | Note that the stored PDFs are mixed with other stored data from Zotero.
11 | 
12 | ```
13 | …/zotero_base_path/storage/A4KJSLAJ/file1.pdf
14 | …/zotero_base_path/storage/AKJ7HHAH/file2.pdf
15 | …/zotero_base_path/storage/34jh5lhj/file3.pdf
16 | …/zotero_base_path/storage/KSJFH6KS/something.html (!)
17 | ```
18 | 
19 | ## Adding new PDFs
20 | 
21 | This Apple script does the following:
22 | 
23 | 1. iterate over all subfolders
24 | 2. add only PDF files to DEVONthink
25 | 3. check if there is a similar file in DEVONthink already
26 | 4. if yes delete the added file
27 | 
28 | 
29 | ## Install
30 | 
31 | ### Adapt the script to your machine
32 | - Add the path to your Zotero `storage` folder in POSIX form ("/path/to/folder")
33 | - Add the name of the database where your papers are stored
34 | - Export as script and place in target location (e.g. scripts folder of an application) 
35 | 
36 | ### Install
37 | - Copy the AppleScript to your scripts folder (Scripts -> open script folder)
38 | - You can choose either the Menu or the Toolbar
39 | 
40 | ## Usage
41 | Run the script from menubar or toolbar.
42 | 
43 | **NOTE**
44 | - The script imports files into the *current group*
45 | - It compares only to files in the *defined database*
46 | - If you store papers in database A but compare to a database B you will import duplicates
47 | - I use a specific 'import' group in my paper library
48 | 
49 | ## Todo
50 | - add bibliographic metadata
51 | 
52 | ## Issues
53 | - The script always adds all PDFs. Comparison happens after adding a PDF and if it exists already the file is deleted from DEVONthink again. Thus, run time grows with number of papers and might be to slow for very large databases. For hundreds of papers it finishes within seconds though.
54 | 


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