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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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Ahmed Khaled2024年4月22日
5

This viewer saves me so much time. However, it regularly causes my laptop to hang by using >5GB of RAM! Please limit its memory usage. I have no problem with it taking a longer time to process documents provided it doesn't make my computer hang up.

Version 0.1.2Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Saiful Islam Sajol2024年4月19日
2

It's sad to see a PDF reader by Google in 2024 without having any AI feature. An outdated product. I was expecting Text Summarizer, AI explanation , text to speech features, interface with Gemini etc. Nothing new, even annotations are missing. Google is lacking behind in terms of innovation.

Version 0.1.2Language en
12 helpful · 11 not helpful
Dawid Polus2024年4月18日
4

Very good, although we need hyperlinks for equations just like how there are hyperlinks for figures/tables/sections. Also, annotation tools would be amazing.

Version 0.1.2Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jun Suk Ha2024年4月17日
4

Would be great if there was a function that moves to previous location!

Version 0.1.2Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Erdun Gao2024年4月17日
5

Very nice extension which helps to save time for referring citations.

Version 0.1.2Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
南极滑稽2024年4月15日
5

查看文献等非常好用,但是选中句子的时候不太方便,而且没有高亮和标注,希望能够加入(顺便再加个翻译功能就最好了)。

Version 0.1.1Language zh
14 helpful · 0 not helpful
Eric Auld2024年4月13日
5

Love it! Could we please get the ability to make notes on items saved to the library? ("This paper was cited in X and discusses the Y technique") Often such things are not evident from the title.

Version 0.1.1Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Joshua Okonkwo2024年4月13日
5

Very good tool for research.

Version 0.1.1Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
X. G.2024年4月12日
5

The way it shows reference is super convenient!

Version 0.1.1Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Philip2024年4月11日
3

This pdf viewer has zoom with zoom with command + scrolling turned on. The regular pdf viewer of edge doesn't have this. can this be turned off?

Version 0.1.1Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful