Getting started
Mktero is a restartless extension for Zotero 7 through 10. Download the XPI, add it from the plugin manager, sign in, and open your next PDF as Markdown.
Take mktero-<version>.xpi from the latest release. Formal releases then update automatically through Zotero; drafts and prereleases do not.
In Zotero, choose Tools → Plugins.
Open the gear menu, choose Install Add-on From File..., select the XPI, and follow the prompts. No restart is needed.
Open Settings → Mktero and sign in or register. The default converter uses your Mktero account, so no separate OCR key is required.
Credentials are stored as ordinary, unencrypted preferences in the active Zotero profile. To keep a PDF off the Mktero service, choose MinerU or Mistral there and enter that service’s own key.
Right-click a PDF or library item and choose Read as Markdown with Mktero, or click the Mktero icon in the reader toolbar.
Select several items and choose Prepare selected Markdown, or right-click a collection and choose Prepare collection Markdown. A collection covers only its own PDFs, not its subcollections. A batch converts three PDFs at a time in Zotero’s progress window, and minimizing it keeps preparation running.
Zotero updates formal releases on its own. A valid local cache skips the remote conversion; the cache key includes the PDF hash and the parser profile, so a changed profile reconverts.
On a cache miss the default converter sends the complete PDF to the Mktero service you signed in to. Switch to your own MinerU or Mistral in Settings → Mktero and the PDF goes there instead.
Ask in the community channels, or report what happened with the Zotero and Mktero versions.
