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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

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SReza S2024年12月11日
5

It's one of the best tools I've found for research purposes. Please add support for Google drive PDFs as well.

Version 0.2.0Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Suji Kim2024年12月11日
5

너무 편해졌어요

Version 0.2.0Language ko
Helena Reyes-Gopar2024年12月2日
3

I mean what they're getting is our behaviour (think about who reads what's on google scholar) in relation to scientific literature, right?

Version 0.2.0Language en
1 helpful · 4 not helpful
Jun Lei2024年12月1日
4

Reference searching isn't working when set as "launch when clicked".

Version 0.2.0Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ali Soleimani2024年11月28日
5

This PDF reader is very fast and reliable. The table of contents and outline it provides using AI are incredibly useful.

Version 0.2.0Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
David Benson2024年11月27日
2

The AI outline of the article is poorly done. It tells you what the writers do in each section. e.g. in the abstract: "Presents the study's focus on grooming behavior". I already know what is supposed to happen in an abstract. What I want AI to do is to give me a summary of what the authors did in the study and what they found. Another example from the results section: "Describes the dominance hierarchy." That is unhelpful and not a summary. I still have to just read it myself. I want AI to describe the dominance hierarchy for me based on the results section of the paper. This reminds me of some of my students being asked to summarize a paper: "In the introduction the authors tell us about the research that has already been done on the topic..." What did they say about that research? What topic? What do scientists know about the topic?

Version 0.2.0Language en
6 helpful · 3 not helpful
shunpei shiina2024年11月26日
4

Pretty useful, but not sure why selection for the outline text is disallowed by setting the "user-select" CSS option. Copy-and-paste from the outline sections to my own note would help me take a note for each section.

Version 0.2.0Language en
T K2024年11月21日
3

Hope it will have two page view, read aloud, and highlighter

Version 0.2.0Language en
17 helpful · 0 not helpful
Onur Onur2024年11月21日
1

dosyaları not ekleme ve üstünü çizme özellikleri de eklenmeli.

Version 0.2.0Language tr
8 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jason Williams2024年11月20日
1

This is the only pdf handler I have in Chrome. when I click on a [pdf] link in G-scholar, Chrome wants me to save the .pdf to my computer. I don't understand how to make it work.

Version 0.2.0Language en
8 helpful · 1 not helpful