Bartleby is a fallback for Zotero when translators fail, enriching PDFs with structured metadata, tags, and an `[AI Enriched]` audit trail.

Bartleby sends the first 9,000 characters of a PDF or webpage to OpenAI and attempts to conform the result to Zotero's item schema—distinguishing a Statute from a Book, a Law Review Article from a Report. It also adds tags, restricting the model to tags already in your library.

In use, a progress bar appears with the tagline "I would prefer not to..." before Bartleby parses the text, builds a Parent Item, and stamps the record. A recursion guard ensures it doesn't loop on its own output. It does the job—reluctantly, but well.