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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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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.

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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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Julia Cury Schutze2024年6月19日
4

ótimo! se tivesse como usar marca texto e fazer comentários ao longo do texto seria perfeito!

Version 0.1.4Language pt
24 helpful · 0 not helpful
Sahar Kheirati saadi2024年6月18日
4

It is really useful and makes my work easy. If it had commenting and highlighting features, it could be the best.

Version 0.1.4Language en
10 helpful · 0 not helpful
Apurba Paul2024年6月12日
4

This is great. Solves a huge problem of looking at reference while reading. Just one request: Add commenting and highlighting features.

Version 0.1.4Language en
23 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jiří Klepl2024年6月12日
5

The tool is great. Sadly, reading a lot of papers causes the scholar website to think you are a robot and it requires you to do a CAPTCHA (quite often); also, when this happens, the plugin is confused and doesn't give any proper warning or anything (you have to know what's happening and then manually visit the scholar website to resolve the issue).

Version 0.1.4Language en
9 helpful · 0 not helpful
Seungjae Oh2024年6月11日
5

PDF에 annotation하거나 형광펜 마킹 기능만 있으면 최고일 것 같습니다.

Version 0.1.4Language ko
26 helpful · 0 not helpful
Joaquin Pelle2024年6月10日
4

It has been very useful, significantly improving my paper reading experience with its reference visualization. However, it is frequently overridden by Chrome's PDF viewer (I use Chrome on Linux). As a result, I must repeatedly disable and re-enable it since there is no option to set it as the default reader within Chrome. This is quite frustrating, and it's a pity because the tool itself is very helpful. I hope this issue is fixed soon.

Version 0.1.4Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Priyam Dey2024年6月10日
4

Great and very useful plug-in. I have 2 complaints: (1) Zooming using touchpad is broken I think. When I try further zoom in, it suddenly reverts to the fixed 25% zoom. This is pretty annoying. I tried to test the same zooming on default chrome viewer (to test if it's my laptop's touchpad issue), but there it works perfectly (no sudden revert to 25% zoom). Please fix this. And (2) for last few days, I'm noticing that clicking on any reference link gives the following error: "There was error retrieving the results. Please try again later". This has been happening lately, even after the plug-in update. If the reference can't be shown with the abstract and the links, then it defeats the purpose of the plug-in altogether. Please fix these two issues. Lastly, I'd like to have reference link from default chrome viewer to this pdf reader (the other way round exists). For eg, if the document is loaded in default chrome viewer, tapping on the hamburger menu and having the scholar pdf reader would help quickly switch between both the readers.

Version 0.1.4Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
骥Zhang2024年6月10日
1

no double view

Version 0.1.4Language en
3 helpful · 5 not helpful
RODOLFO LUIZ SOUZA RAIMUNDO2024年6月9日
4

Faltou apenas opções para anotar com caneta e comentários. E marca texto. Ficaria perfeito.

Version 0.1.4Language pt
14 helpful · 0 not helpful
Son Nguyen2024年6月7日
5

very good idea

Version 0.1.3Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful