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Google Scholar PDF Reader

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

Users2MCurrent public install base
Rating4.1Store average score
Reviews693Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version0.4.9
ManifestV3
Size3.54MiB
Languages41Deutsch / English / Filipino +38
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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 text521Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews693Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Sebastian Chmielewski2025年11月28日
5

Very helpful :)

Version 0.4.1Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Lana2025年11月22日
3

Wanted to love it but the absence of a two-page view is a *major* oversight imo. The highlighting feature and the AI outline (when it works properly) are great, but not enough to keep me from just using the native chrome pdf viewer.

Version 0.4.1Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Dipayan Sarkar2025年11月19日
4

This PDF viewer is excellent overall. My only issue is with the night mode — the background becomes almost pitch-black, and the white text ends up far too contrasty for comfortable reading. A light GREY background would be much easier on the eyes. Even better, please add a slider to let users adjust how dark or light the background should be. This small change would make long reading sessions much more comfortable.

Version 0.4.1Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Nicolas Pinheiro Veras2025年11月17日
4

Adiciona um tradutor dentro dessa extensão, por favor

Version 0.4.1Language pt
6 helpful · 0 not helpful
Planck Chang2025年11月15日
5

很好的插件。能否添加一个划词翻译的功能。类似沙拉翻译。

Version 0.4.1Language zh
11 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ellie Kesselman2025年11月14日
4

This is great now that you've added color highlighting and saving my annotations on articles! I don't need the AI feature but I'm not complaining. My only concern, and reason for 4 stars, is that I'm afraid if I make use of it, there won't be any portability if Google decides to retire it. Will Google Takeout feature be enabled for this PDF Reader please, just in case?

Version 0.4.1Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Flori mullmuller2025年11月14日
4

Wer es im Studium nicht nutzt verpasst echt was! Sehr viel praktischer, als alle PDFs direkt zu downloaden! Im November 2025 sind die ersten Annotations-Möglichkeiten erschienen, das finde ich sehr toll. Bitte hier noch mehr + bessere Möglichkeiten. Danke! :)

Version 0.4.1Language de
Ilya Sokolov2025年11月13日
5

Hey! You implemented comments and highlights! That's everything we ever needed from scientific reader! Thank you so so much! YOU ARE THE BEST!!! Thank you very very much!

Version 0.4.1Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ashutosh2025年11月13日
2

Plz add a way to change citations type, to IEEE etc Edit: Reduced a star. The pdf auto index doesn't work for books, it starts from last chapter, awfully similar to some sort of regex with pdf end anchor and greedy operators. Regardless of implementation, it's bothering me enough, to file an edit here.

Version 0.4.1Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Chetan Thakur2025年11月11日
5

Thanks A lot for adding highlight option. I was about to shift to another extension.

Version 0.4.1Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful