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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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Bitop Halder2024年4月28日
4

Please launch a google scholar pdf reader software or add a highlighter tool, It would be much handy and useful.

Version 0.1.2Language en
9 helpful · 0 not helpful
Fermatsilva2024年4月28日
5

Sensacional! Obrigado aos desenvolvedores e espero que adicionem mais funcionalidades

Version 0.1.2Language pt
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Josyula Krishna2024年4月27日
4

Please make all the references in the actual references sections clickable!

Version 0.1.2Language en
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Kamlesh Raghuwanshi2024年4月27日
5

I love it. It is best PDF reader when reading research papers.

Version 0.1.2Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Mr Suiii2024年4月27日
4

It would be less annoying if there was an option to open the PDF from the last seen page, not from the beginning each time.

Version 0.1.2Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
Md. Mahbubur Rahman2024年4月27日
4

The extension provides what it promises, well, for most of the time. Sometimes, it misses a great number of citations. However, the accuracy of the references it fetches, is surprisingly good. I am hoping with a few updates, this issue will be solved. I expect that the extension will also show the citation that couldn't have been identified (maybe with red highlights). Bottom of the story, the current version, per se, is extremely useful and easily recommendable. Definitely worth a try.

Version 0.1.2Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
bronya liu2024年4月26日
4

如果可以再加上翻译功能就好了

Version 0.1.2Language zh
7 helpful · 0 not helpful
Cosmin Lehene2024年4月23日
2

Review update (2024-08-03) This plugin can easily get you banned from google scholar, especially if you keep open tabs with papers. I suspect the extension makes multiple background requests to GS APIs and if you restart the browser with multiple papers open it can trigger it and there's no way to solve the problem but wait to lift it https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/86640?hl=en&sjid=10760781295977917932-NA HTTP 429 (Too many requests) and > Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later It can take days to get it to work again. First review Useful when it works, but slow and messes up Chrome history by saving every page as a history item. It sometimes (rather often) doesn't recognize/find the current paper. That happens even if the paper was opened through the extension. I'm using the scholar button extension to search the paper and find it every time. It has an annoying (and useless) touch-based zoom-in / zoom-out that always triggers and gets zoomed in at 500%, while the normal Chrome zoom shortcuts (e.g. Cmd-0/+/-) don't work 🤷‍♂️.

Version 0.1.7Language en
8 helpful · 1 not helpful
Jonas De Schouwer2024年4月23日
4

Really useful to avoid going back-and-forth to the References section. An integrated annotation tool would be much appreciated.

Version 0.1.2Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Clément Dumas2024年4月23日
5

Vraiment top

Version 0.1.2Language fr
3 helpful · 1 not helpful