Question about Navigating to a Specific Location in a PDF via Zotero

[Hwi Kwon]

Hi, I’m wondering if there’s a way to programmatically navigate to a specific location in a PDF using the Zotero API or its internal reader.

I’m working on implementing a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) plugin and would like to highlight or jump to a referenced section within a PDF. I considered creating a temporary annotation and jumping to it, but I couldn’t find any API for creating annotations programmatically.

Is there any supported or even unofficial way to achieve this functionality?

Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

[Abe Jellinek]

Do you mean navigating to a specific page? If so:

Zotero.FileHandlers.open(attachment, { pageIndex: 6 });

You create annotations like any other item (new Zotero.Item('annotation')), but you shouldn’t need to do that for this.

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[Hwi Kwon]

My objective is to display the source content retrieved through RAG directly within the Zotero document for the user. 

Since I wasn’t able to find a method to highlight text without using annotations, I ended up implementing the highlighting using annotations instead—specifically, by utilizing the annotationManager from the Reader.

I was wondering if there might be any alternative approach to achieve this—perhaps by using other functions provided by the Reader, or by accessing pdf.js directly?

Thank you. 

2025년 6월 17일 화요일 오전 11시 32분 41초 UTC+9에 Abe Jellinek님이 작성: