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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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Google Scholar PDF Reader Media preview

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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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Technical snapshot

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Version0.4.9
ManifestV3
Size3.54MiB
Languages41Deutsch / English / Filipino +38
Published
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DeutschEnglishFilipinoIndonesiaNederlandsTiếng ViệtTürkçecatalàdanskespañolespañol (Latinoamérica)français
Overview

Product summary

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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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Andrey Tomarovsky2024年5月20日
5

Great, but the design needs some improvement. The arrow on the left panel looks ugly.

Version 0.1.3Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
BARATA2024年5月19日
5

Adicione a função marca texto, por favor ! Junto dos comentarios

Version 0.1.3Language pt
9 helpful · 1 not helpful
Sávio Nascimento2024年5月19日
5

Achei excelente! Melhor que os leitores de PDFs convencionais dos navegadores e ainda tem integração com o Google Acadêmico (Scholar). Vale mencionar que no Windows poucos programas desktop de leitores de PDF possibilitam mudar a folha branca do PDF para preto e este do Google permite facilmente fazer essa alteração muito eficientemente.

Version 0.1.3Language pt
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Steve Thomas2024年5月19日
4

Seems helpful - Doesn't seem to work on PDFs within Google Drive, though? At least so far I haven't been able to get it to work...

Version 0.1.3Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Josh2024年5月18日
4

Pretty great. So easy now to view citations! But it breaks Copilot's ability to read PDFs in Edge. :(

Version 0.1.3Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jamie Bernardi2024年5月16日
4

Really useful. Only 4* because it doesn't capture *every* link / reference, and sometimes erroneously highlights non-name words. But it does a pretty good job and makes reading academic PDFs a lot better.

Version 0.1.3Language en
Bingbing Sun2024年5月15日
5

I though it can be a different PDF reader, such as AI-based, but it is just a normal PDF reader? Please add AI function, for example powered by Google AI-agent like gemini. Thank you.

Version 0.1.3Language en
4 helpful · 1 not helpful
Mean Tao2024年5月15日
5

We highly recommend adding translation! Please!! We will be so gratefull! Really appreciate!

Version 0.1.3Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Khasmamad Shabanovi2024年5月13日
4

Very useful! Love the reference preview feature and the night mode! I would love to have two more features: - annotation - two-page view Thanks for your work!

Version 0.1.3Language en
9 helpful · 0 not helpful
Artyom Yepremyan2024年5月10日
2

Overall quite useful extension, but there is a bug. For some PDF documents it changes the font and the structure of the text, there are random spaces between letters. When I disable the extension, all these issues are gone, so it is not the issue of the document, but of the extension.

Version 0.1.3Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful