What is PapersGPT?

PapersGPT is an AI-powered tool designed to enhance research workflows within the Zotero reference management software. It allows users to interact with their PDF documents directly in Zotero using various advanced Large Language Models (LLMs), including commercial options like OpenAI's GPT series, Anthropic's Claude models, Google's Gemini, and DeepSeek, as well as open-source models like Llama 3.2, Gemma 2, Phi-3.5, and Mistral for Mac users. This integration facilitates quicker reading, understanding, and processing of academic papers and other documents.

By enabling chat functionalities with single or multiple PDFs simultaneously, PapersGPT helps users generate literature reviews, gain insights, and manage documents more efficiently without leaving the Zotero environment. A key focus is data privacy and security, as all data processing occurs locally on the user's machine, ensuring that sensitive information is not uploaded to the cloud. Users need their own API keys for commercial LLMs, while some open-source models are offered freely for Mac users.

Features

Broad LLM Support: Integrates ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude, Grok 3, Llama3.2, Gemma2, Phi-3.5, and Mistral.
Zotero Integration: Seamlessly chat with PDFs directly within the Zotero interface.
Multiple PDF Chat: Chat with several PDFs simultaneously to generate literature reviews or synthesize information.
Local Data Storage: Ensures privacy and security by keeping all data on the user's local machine.
Open Source LLM Access (Mac): Provides free access to Llama3.2, Gemma2, Phi-3.5, and Mistral for Mac users.
API Key Integration: Supports personal API keys for commercial LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini).
Automatic LLM Setup (Free Models): Selected free LLMs are automatically downloaded, installed, and run with one click on Mac.

Use Cases

Chatting with research papers within Zotero.
Generating literature reviews by interacting with multiple PDFs.
Quickly understanding and extracting insights from academic documents.
Processing legal documents stored in Zotero.
Analyzing financial reports or papers within Zotero.
Assisting students with studying and research paper comprehension.

FAQs

How many business LLMs are supported now?

PapersGPT now supports gpt-4o, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4 and gpt-3.5-turbo of OpenAI. claude-3.5-sonnet, claude-3.5-haiku, all claude-3 serie models, gemini-1.5-pro and gemini-1.5-flash.
Do all supported large language model API KEYs need to be configured?

No, You only need to configure your personal API KEY of the LLMs. Such as OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini API Key. If you configure the API Keys for all supported LLMs, it would be very helpful and convenient for you to switch between multiple LLMs in a chat conversation.
How many Open Source free LLMs are supported now?

Llama3.2, Gemma2, Phi-3.5 and Mistral
Can free LLMs be used on Windows?

No, now the build-in free LLMs could only be accessed on Mac.
Should free LLMs be downloaded manually?

No, the selected LLM is automatically downloaded, installed and runned only by just one click.