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Google Scholar PDF Reader

Supercharge your paper reading: follow references, skim outline, jump to figures, cite and save.

Users1MCurrent public install base
Rating4.1Store average score
Reviews696Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth-1MNet users gained this week
7-day growth rate-50%Relative weekly velocity
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900K1.2M1.5M1.8M2.1M2026年7月17日2026年7月20日2026年7月21日Latest: 1M
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Version0.4.9
ManifestV3
Size3.54MiB
Languages41Deutsch / English / Filipino +38
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DeutschEnglishFilipinoIndonesiaNederlandsTiếng ViệtTürkçecatalàdanskespañolespañol (Latinoamérica)français
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When you install Scholar Reader, PDFs on all sites will have a new look in Chrome. To make this happen, Chrome will ask for permissions to read and change data on all sites. Scholar Reader makes no changes other than the presentation of PDFs.

• Preview references as you read. Click the in-text citation to see a summary and find the PDF.

• Read faster with the AI outline. Get a quick overview and click on interesting bullets to jump within the paper.

• Highlight and comment on PDFs. Highlights are saved to your Scholar library.

• Make it right for your eyes with light, dark, and night modes.

• Copy and paste common citation formats without leaving the paper.

Reviews

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Store average score4.1Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.9Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text524Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews696Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.1. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Haocheng XIAO2025年5月10日
5

Nice work!!!

Version 0.2.5Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Shlomo dines2025年5月10日
4

it has some very useful features a specialty the night mode is very good. but in dose not have a lot of features from the "PDF Viewer" extension like two page display or OCR, so you have to chose what you want. it would be nice to have all the features in one extension and not need to switch

Version 0.2.5Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ryan Buchanan2025年5月10日
4

The options for dark mode and making the AI summaries optional made me re-download this. It's a good program, runs well, and is basically a must for any serious research. The only reason I'm not giving this a 5 is because I think it still has some untapped potential, but I'm not 100% sure what yet.

Version 0.2.5Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Maximilian “Max” Ley2025年5月6日
3

Adding some highlight editing tools and something for writing comments (for a local copy of the file) would be perfect for my scientific work. Thanks for this great tool!

Version 0.2.5Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Miranda Vinay2025年5月5日
4

This is great, i love the outline created. One suggestion to make this app much better would be to be able to estimate the wordcount of the paper (or even better, the wordcount in each subsection). This would really help!

Version 0.2.5Language en
Tunahan Mazlum2025年5月2日
4

Dosyalara not ekleme, vurgu yapma ve çeviri özelliği gelirse iyi olur. Özetleme ve içerik kısmı güzel olmuş.

Version 0.2.5Language tr
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Lamarck Leland2025年5月2日
1

The dark mode is beautiful. My eyes are grateful. 5/5 Update 2025/11/11: Please give us the option to toggle the highlight function. The pop-up is extremely annoying. 4/5 2025/12/27: I am sorry, that highlight pop-up is just too annoying. If it was an ad to support the extension I could even understand, but it's just a pop-up to get in your way, on purpose. 3/5 2026/04/30: There is even more screen clutter now: on the left side of the screen - AI stuff or thumbnail view or whatever. 2/5 At this point I have largely switched to Sumatra PDF. Very disappointing. I would've given it 2 stars, but since the only reviews that actually matter are 5 and 1, it gets a 1, besides, it can be safely assumed that the next update will be even more obnoxious, I just won't be here to see it.

Version 0.5.0Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Christopher W2025年5月1日
3

Good and useful. But, without 2-page view, this is a dealbreaker and a huge downgrade from the normal chrome viewer. Will wait until the 2-page view.

Version 0.2.5Language en
John H.2025年5月1日
3

Works well. Doesn't work on google drive pdf's, presumably paywalled behind Gemini integration.

Version 0.2.5Language en
lb z2025年4月30日
3

没有高亮!!

Version 0.2.5Language zh
6 helpful · 0 not helpful