Texthelp PDF Reader

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Extension status: Featured

Description from extension meta

Experience PDFs in a whole new way with Texthelp’s new PDF Reader.

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Searching for a way to make PDFs accessible, collaborative and more engaging?

Download Texthelp’s PDF Reader to experience PDFs in a whole new way! As part of Read&Write for Google Chrome extension, with the PDF Reader not only can you use the literacy and accessibility support tools you know and love (include text-to-speech, dictionaries and highlighting), but we’ve added powerful collaboration tools to bring your PDFs to life.

Open PDFs in Google Drive, the web, or your local device, then use Texthelp’s PDF Reader to:

• Collaborate in real-time on PDFs shared in Google Drive
• Read text, including math & science equations, aloud
• Input math & science directly into your PDF with integration of the EquatIO for Chrome extension*
• Translate words
• Add text annotations using Word Prediction and Dictation*
• Build vocabulary lists*
• Add audio comments using only your voice*
• And more!

Try Texthelp’s new PDF Reader free for 30 days, with unlimited access to all features. After this time Premium features* require a subscription to Read&Write for Google Chrome.

Get more information on Read&Write for Google Chrome™ features, licensing, and pricing at https://www.texthelp.com/products/read-write/premium-features/

For any technical questions, contact us at: [email protected]

Latest reviews

Obama 2025-09-30: trash
Eshaan Gad 2025-09-22: Absolutely trash service. Can't even remove it from my account.
Paul Helleman 2025-09-02: Dreadfully slow.
Elijah Neron 2025-06-06: sucks. wont let me open pdfs in classroom.
Anonymous 2025-06-02: If I could give negative stars, I definitely would
Kai Akam 2025-01-23: sucks
Grier Collins 2024-12-02: Horrible and school forces me to use it.
Audrey Church 2024-11-13: terrible app if you work in a school district DONT USE!!! it deletes a lot of assignments and PDFs and my computer broke for a little while after it was installed.
Dillon Klein 2024-11-10: This is the best chrome extension! I use this everyday and it works flawlessly. Would recommend. P.S. This extension sucks. Don't get it.
Cole Snider 2024-10-16: this is the best app i have ever used, YAY!!, everytime i open my computer i think of orbitnote. i dont know where i would be without it, it fills the holes in my derpressing life. i jump in joy and burst out laughing everytime i use orbit note. -also, orbit note is the worst thing to ever exist, please dont use it
Cyanleaf 2024-09-23: so annoying and finicky. made me restart. so annoying old texthelp was way better
Joseph Parsons 2024-09-06: This location is historically important because humans have lived here for thousands of years, built iconic pyramids and relied only on the resources provided by the river in this desert landscape.
Ethan Shannon 2024-09-05: trash
Jack Moore 2024-05-03: useless
Michael Cavanaugh 2024-04-08: I HATE this stupid app, I cant even delete it, please do not download.
Joanne Lee 2024-04-02: this is great
JACKSON LANCE 2024-03-26: i hate this it makes me want to jump off a cliff because it is impossible to use, uninstall, and edit also it made my google drive files go skidaddle
NATALIA MUNOZ MARQUEZ 2024-02-09: orbitnote is good
Shaazain Sheikh 2024-01-12: not so good because it somtimes says popups blocked
Lilian Zhao 2024-01-10: Bad and not good. Terrible formatting. Do not downloads it.
oldest caveman 2023-12-18: people in my school are rating this 1 star after we were forced to get this sketchy orbit note
annoyed 2023-12-18: absolutely garbage doesn't work and wants my google account info definitely would recommend.
berry kalun 2023-12-18: WORTHLESS PEACE OF RUBBISH
de fr 2023-12-18: WHAT THE HECK ITS DOWNLOADED ON MY COMPUTER AND I CANT DELETE IT MY SCHOOL INSTALLED IT ON MY COMPUTER
oogabooga 2023-12-18: Bro this thing is absolute garbage my school makes me get it and it doesn't do anything but ask for my personal information
Blue Gorilla 2023-12-18: THE WORST EXTENSION EVER! it always watching and there are constantly pop ups and the fact or school forces us to use it is horrible
Joshua Lyons 2023-10-18: Literally the worst thing ever, my school forced me to get it, and since when did you need to sign in to use a PDF????? Google drive can do exactly this but ten times better. DO NOT GET THIS EXTENSION!!! and it's kind of sketchy because it has full access to your google drive and classroom. DO NOT GET, AND WHY CAN YOU NOT DELETE IT!?!?!?!?!?!
Joshua Lyons 2023-10-18: Literally the worst thing ever, my school forced me to get it, and since when did you need to sign in to use a PDF????? Google drive can do exactly this but ten times better. DO NOT GET THIS EXTENSION!!! and it's kind of sketchy because it has full access to your google drive and classroom. DO NOT GET, AND WHY CAN YOU NOT DELETE IT!?!?!?!?!?!
Ayaan Khan 2023-05-16: very bad extension, plus it glitches out all the time and it takes so long to load. 1/10
Ayaan Khan 2023-05-16: very bad extension, plus it glitches out all the time and it takes so long to load. 1/10
Alex C 2022-12-28: worthless.
Alex C 2022-12-28: worthless.
Aarav Patel 2022-10-20: THIS THING IS IDIOTIC, IT RUINED A WHOLE SCHOOL PROJECT. WANTED TO GIVE THIS -1000000000000000 STARS BUT COULDN'T
Aarav Patel 2022-10-20: THIS THING IS IDIOTIC, IT RUINED A WHOLE SCHOOL PROJECT. WANTED TO GIVE THIS -1000000000000000 STARS BUT COULDN'T
Sophia Yan 2022-07-15: works as intended BUT now each time you open a pdf, say from google classroom, you don't get to preview it. it just opens up. also YOU CANT UNDO MISTAKES WITH CTRL + Z. really annoying when i accidentally delete erase more than i intended while making diagrams. buggy and glitchy too, sometimes text boxes teleport. layout is clunky and not at all easy to operate EDIT: YOU CANT EXPORT ANNOTATIONS. OTHER PERSON CAN ONLY SEE IT IF THEY HAVE ORBITNOTE TOO. horrible, that's the entire reason people even download this.
Sophia Yan 2022-07-15: works as intended BUT now each time you open a pdf, say from google classroom, you don't get to preview it. it just opens up. also YOU CANT UNDO MISTAKES WITH CTRL + Z. really annoying when i accidentally delete erase more than i intended while making diagrams. buggy and glitchy too, sometimes text boxes teleport. layout is clunky and not at all easy to operate EDIT: YOU CANT EXPORT ANNOTATIONS. OTHER PERSON CAN ONLY SEE IT IF THEY HAVE ORBITNOTE TOO. horrible, that's the entire reason people even download this.
Zarah Jose 2022-03-16: This extension was making my eyes hurt. I still cannot figure out how this thing works. It slowed down my device whenever I opened it, endless amounts of crashing, and sometimes it just appears as a black screen when I launch the extension. The amount of time it takes to load is just painful.
Zarah Jose 2022-03-16: This extension was making my eyes hurt. I still cannot figure out how this thing works. It slowed down my device whenever I opened it, endless amounts of crashing, and sometimes it just appears as a black screen when I launch the extension. The amount of time it takes to load is just painful.
Andrew Bal 2021-12-09: Worst extension ever. My school forced me to download it and now i cant open a pdf that was not made by my school bord.
Andrew Bal 2021-12-09: Worst extension ever. My school forced me to download it and now i cant open a pdf that was not made by my school bord.
Ariane M 2021-09-14: I don't know why... but it doesn't work for me. My schoolboard downloaded it so I can't uninstall it. It used to work before it had a different name and it was upgraded or something, but whenever I try to open a PDF with it it's just a dark gray screen. Anybody have a solution for this? Because I need to use this extension to get my schoolwork done...
Alan Nguyen 2021-08-16: I cant even uninstall it it sucks
Alan Nguyen 2021-08-16: I cant even uninstall it it sucks
poonam gupta 2021-06-28: Extension Icon Texthelp PDF Reader- PDF.js v5.1.370 (build: 5c50e70a) Message: Unexpected server response (403) while retrieving PDF "https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1wAPyX7g458l0lJT6nMh_OO17xyUxNzsN&export=download&filename=&t=1". why cant i open my pdf...what did I miss. iI followed all steps mentioned in video.
Daniel 2021-05-20: it worked at the start but once i came back some tools were grayed out and i cound not use them
Daniel 2021-05-20: it worked at the start but once i came back some tools were grayed out and i cound not use them
RymaDancer 2021-05-11: Omg! This is so good! I normally have to open in google docs which ruins the layout and then I found this! Thank you! But one thing.. it sometimes take long to load but what I do is go into my history and open it up like that! Thank you so much!
RymaDancer 2021-05-11: Omg! This is so good! I normally have to open in google docs which ruins the layout and then I found this! Thank you! But one thing.. it sometimes take long to load but what I do is go into my history and open it up like that! Thank you so much!
Karson Christianson 2021-05-07: You literally cant use the letter c without having to reload the PDF. this is getting me so triggered it is so inconvenient. Its got to be the easiest fix in the world but its never happened yet.
Karson Christianson 2021-05-07: You literally cant use the letter c without having to reload the PDF. this is getting me so triggered it is so inconvenient. Its got to be the easiest fix in the world but its never happened yet.

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