Chat Multiple PDFs in Zotero
Quickly gain key detailed insight in lots of PDFs
PapersGPT has a very helpful feature that makes reading papers easier and more efficient.This feature is chatting with your multiple PDFs. Ask a question, and PapersGPT will use SOTA AI model to pick up the key detailed comparison and insight from all of your selected documents. You can receive the answer from the documents you select. This feature helps you to transform your files into your personal knowledge base very quickly, and greatly improve your efficiency in understanding and comparing papers.
Built-in several default chatting topics
If you don’t know what to chat with your multiple pdf documents. Don’t worry, PapersGPT has provided several quick topics for you. You can get a general idea of your files by using these topics.
Generating 'Literature review' based on multiple PDFs.
Generating 'Theoretical frameworks' based on multiple PDFs.
Generating 'Leading researchers' based on multiple PDFs.
Generating 'Milestones' based on multiple PDFs.
Generating 'Methodologies' based on multiple PDFs.
Generating 'Future Directions' based on multiple PDFs.
Ask any questions you like After you get a general idea of your PDFs, you can ask your specific questions to get more information. You can directly input any words or prompts to chat with your multiple PDFs.
How to chat with multiple PDF documents?
First, select multiple files in the main window of Zotero. There are two methods to select multiple PDFs:
Method 1: Select multiple files one by one in the main window
Windows: hold on 'ctrl', and then click the left button of the mouth to select multiple files
MacOS: hold on 'command', and then click the left button of the mouth to select multiple files

Method 2: Directly select some collection

After selecting multiple files through the above two methods, click the mouse right button to trigger PapersGPT to chat. For method 1, it is shown as the following picture.

For method 2, the operation of triggering PapersGPT is shown as the below picture.

Finally, chat with multiple files in PapersGPT window. There are some built-in prompts, such as generating literature review, theoretical frameworks, and future directions etc. You can also directly input any words or prompts to chat.
