Tutorial · 6 min
How to use Bulk PDF Ingestion
Drop hundreds of PDFs at once
Bulk import full-text PDFs with DOI detection, automatic metadata lookup, duplicate merging and an OCR queue for scanned documents.
Before you start
- • A folder of PDFs
Steps
- 1
Open Bulk PDF Ingestion
Sidebar → Bulk PDF Ingestion.
- 2
Drop in the batch
Add up to a few hundred PDFs at once; each file becomes a job in the queue.
- 3
Watch the queue
Jobs move through upload → OCR → dedupe → metadata → ready, and failures show the error detail inline.
- 4
Resolve duplicates
Likely duplicates are flagged by DOI and title so only one copy reaches your library.
- 5
Send to the library
Ready records land in Reference Manager with metadata attached.
Tips
- • Ingest overnight for very large batches — OCR is the slow step.
Troubleshooting
A job is stuck on OCR
Very large scanned files take longest. If the job reports an error, re-upload that single file from Document Extraction & OCR.