seerai — AI Research Assistant Plugin for Zotero

seerai is an intelligent research assistant plugin for Zotero 9/10 that integrates AI-powered chat, advanced search, structured data extraction, and systematic review workflows directly into your research workflow. Chat with your papers, extract structured data, run PRISMA-style reviews, and accelerate your literature review with a local-first, privacy-focused design.

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Installation

From GitHub (Recommended)

1. Download the latest release (.xpi file) from Releases.
2. In Zotero, go to Tools → Add-ons.
3. Click the gear icon ⚙️ and select Install Add-on From File....
4. Select the downloaded .xpi file.
5. Restart Zotero.

From Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/dralkh/seerai.git
cd seerai

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the plugin
npm run build

# The .xpi file will be generated in the root directory

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Features

AI-Powered Chat Interface

• Contextual Conversations: Chat with AI about your selected papers with full context awareness.
• Smart Context Priority: Automatically prioritizes content sources:
  1. Zotero Notes (OCR note, and other notes for highest priority)
  2. Indexed PDF Text (Fast, efficient, however consumes a lot of tokens and may cause limit issues)
  3. OCR (Fallback for scanned documents with no indexed text)
• Multi-paper Support: Add multiple papers to a single conversation for comparative analysis.
• Streaming Responses: Real-time, token-by-token response rendering.
• Markdown & Math: Responses are formatted with syntax highlighting and LaTeX math support.
• Vision Support: Paste images directly into chat for multimodal analysis.
• Multimodal Generation: Generate images, videos, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech directly from chat.
• Attachments Upload: Add files to conversations via the context menu.
• Interactive Follow-ups: Deepen the conversation with streaming follow-up questions.
• Configurable Citations: Choose your preferred citation style for AI insights and chat.
• Smart Copy: Select and copy text with preserved formatting (Markdown) directly from chat bubbles.
• Enhanced Keybindings:
  • Enter: Insert new line
  • Shift+Enter: Send message
  • Ctrl+Shift+S: Toggle/Focus detachable window
• Detachable Window: Pop out the SeerAI interface into a standalone resizable floating window to maintain chat access while navigating your library.
• Themed UI: Enhanced dialogs and components with full theme support for a consistent look across Zotero's Light and Dark modes.
• Responsive Layout: Chat, tables, and search tabs dynamically adapt to panel width changes.

Semantic Search & Discovery