Nowerdays, AI is advancing at a very fast pace, AI plugins in Zotero help people to imporove their PDF reading experience. PapersGPT is unique compared to other AI plugins.This article will tell you why choose PapersGPT to help you chat PDF in Zotero.
PapersGPT (https://www.papersgpt.com) is an AI Chat plugin using SOTA LLM for Zotero user, especially for serious study and work scenarios. You can ask questions, the chatbot in PapersGPT will provide you with precise, reliable answers. This plugin is designed to help you read and understand PDF files and improve your efficiency in reading.
Compare PapersGPT with other AI plugins in Zotero, you will find 3 unique points.
Recently Papersgpt released a new feature, a feature that makes reading papers easier and more efficient. The new feature is chatting with your multiple PDFs. Ask a question, and Papersgpt will use AI to pick up the answer from all of your selected documents. You can receive the answer from the documents you select. This new feature help you to transform your files into your personal knowledge base.
With the PapersGPT, it is very easy to select and change the LLM model they prefer, such as Gemini, Claude, Grok or DeepSeek, not only GPT. It's very easy to access to all the best popular LLM models without complicated configuration as other AI plugin, just select the model and input the API key, that's all.
Almost all the ChatGPT models are here.For example, GPT-4.1,GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini,GPT-4.
Almost all the Claude models are here.For example, Claude 4 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.
Almost all the Gemini models are here.For example, Gemini 2.5, Gemini 2.0, Gemini 1.5.
Available DeepSeek models in Zotero to chat pdf
Almost all the DeepSeek models are here.For example, DeepSeek R1, DeepSeek V3.
OpenRouter provide many models
If you have OpenRouter account, you can also access all the models on it. Many of them are provided by OpenRouter for free. You can use Qwen3 , Mistral Nemo , Grok 3 to chat pdf in Zotero.
No complicated configuration, even those who are not familiar with computers can handle it easily. For the online models,all you needed is select the model and input your own API Key,
Today, AI is advancing at a very fast pace, with new models and techniques coming out almost every day. In Papersgpt the online LLM will be continuously updated.
There are many SOTA free and open source models built in. Just one click running local totaly free SOTA LLMs on Windows and Mac. These models can be automatically downloaded, installed and used with just one click on the plugin page, models are all locally stored, ensuring not sending your data to remote LLMs.
Of course, these models can be switched as your will, and smarter Open Source LLMs in the future would be accessed as soon as possible.
100% Privacy and Safe of Your Personal Data. Besides local LLMs, the RAG modules of embeddings, vector database and rerank are all built and runned locally, There will be no data leakage and it can be used normally even on the plane when the internet can't be connected.
There are Qwen 3,Gemma 3 ,DeepSeek R1,Llama3.2 available for chat pdf in Zotero.
If you have already intalled ollama on your computer,you can also use the existed ollama. you only need to select the Customized option in PapersGPT, then set http://localhost:11434/api/chat in the API URL, the model name to be filled in PapersGPT is the same as Ollama, and nothing need to fill in the API KEY.
Now I think you get the answer why choose PapersGPT.
With the help of PapersGPT, you can chat with your pdf documents, you will have an AI-powered friend who will enhance your PDF reading experiences. Whether you’re a student, professional, or running a business, let PapersGPT handle the tedious tasks so you can focus on what matters most and get more done in less time.
Don't hesitate.Just download and have a free try. Your feedback is always welcome, we believe with your help PapersGPT will be better and better.
