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

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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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Aadit Farhan2026年3月13日
4

This would be a complete extension with two more features 1. notes in markdown/latex 2. ability to share a paper with all highlights/notes

Version 0.4.8Language en
6 helpful · 0 not helpful
Rimon Melamed2026年3月6日
5

Amazing tool for researchers!

Version 0.4.7Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Nelson2026年3月4日
1

not work

Version 0.4.7Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Lang Gang2026年2月27日
5

很好用 很方便,唯一缺点就是AI大纲有时候对于文档内容不标准的识别不对,其他都很好了

Version 0.4.7Language zh
Yiling Xie2026年2月21日
5

Very useful! Save a lot of time

Version 0.4.6Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Xiao Zhao2026年2月20日
5

Very good extension! Super useful!

Version 0.4.6Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Benjamin Liu2026年2月12日
5

Genuinely incredible. Fulfilled every requirement that I had where every other reader had one issue or another. - Works with web PDFs that require authentication, - Reads local PDFs, - Allows Gemini in Chrome to read, - Has inversion dark mode, - Has a button to revert to native reader at will Crazy underrated extension!

Version 0.4.5Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
Suman Layek2026年2月10日
5

This tool is amazing; fills the void where every other PDF reader failed to anticipate this problem.

Version 0.4.5Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
SHANTANU SHANTANU2026年2月9日
4

Please add the Google Dictionary into it because Google Dictionary does not activate while i'm use this google scholar pdf reader

Version 0.4.5Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Bobak Tadjalli2026年2月7日
1

It doesn’t display PDFs at all. PDFs load normally once I disable this extension. With it enabled, the viewer is completely blank — only a black top bar, a dark gray left bar, and a gray background with a blue loading bar stuck underneath. Basically unusable.

Version 0.4.5Language en
0 helpful · 3 not helpful