Google Scholar PDF Reader
Extension Actions
CRX ID
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
Description from extension meta
Supercharge your paper reading: follow references, skim outline, jump to figures, cite and save.
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Description from store
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.
• Save articles to your Scholar Library to read or cite later.
• Click in-text figure mentions to see the figure and the back button to keep reading.
By installing this extension, you agree to the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.
Latest reviews
- Handelsman Sinclaire
- Hope the developers will introduce a multi-language page translation feature.
- Atharv
- Very helpful plugin. but seems to be not working for me anymore. Any reason why? Is it just me or is it down for everyone?
- Sebastian Chmielewski
- Very helpful :)
- Lana
- 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.
- Dipayan Sarkar
- 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.
- Ellie Kesselman
- 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?
- Ilya Sokolov
- 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!
- Ashutosh
- Plz add a way to change citations type, to IEEE etc
- Chetan Thakur
- Thanks A lot for adding highlight option. I was about to shift to another extension.
- Quad Angles
- This is a great extension overall, but it would be even better with a couple of additional features: Zoom support – It’s currently not possible to enlarge the text, which would really help with readability. Partial text copy – Right now, you can only copy all the text at once. It would be much more convenient to be able to copy selected portions instead.
- Jialiang Tang
- Add a highlighting function!
- Anson Savage
- AWESOME!!
- Tomer Porian
- The extension is overall great, but I'm only giving two stars since I want to have the option to keep the AI outline bar closed by default. Once the feature is added I'll raise my score.
- Illuminati
- That one white pixel in the top left corner when using dark theme is killing me
- Gemine Ghemeray
- this is awesome pdf reader extension easy to use have light mode dark mode night mode good for reading day and night can easily print
- Szymon Antoniak
- Fantastic, but limited usefulness if I can't highlight + take notes. Would be a 1 stop shop!
- JOVIN LUPENZA
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- Evya Oren
- Worth giving Google every bit of my privacy jsut for this one. Amazing! Saves me hours a week and tons of hair (that I don't pluck from my head, having to manually go to the end of the paper, not find where I was then 3 more clicks to search for the citation) really, I'd pay for this extension (though don't, please)
- Trisha Martinez
- Love it, but trying to find the culprit that told Google Scholar I am a bot, and now won't let me in to Google Scholar for anything! If this extension is chatty, it might be the one...... Trying by disabling it first.
- Mahdi Ghafarian
- This extension is the coolest thing I have seen in a while. Great job!
- Gizie Endalfer
- it is so good for my research
- Aficiòn Tradiciòn
- good extension on others browsers but don't work properly on vivaldi, pdf stored localy is loading forever
- Mehedy Hasan
- this is so work full
- James
- Won't install on latest version of Vivaldi.
- Bibek Majhi
- not working
- eee 1
- Strong features like outlining and citation, but lacks translation and annotation functions.
- Madison Simounet
- I'm a PhD student and this has made my life so much easier!!!! Thank you Google!
- Alireza imani
- Perfect for reading academic papers. It would be great to add these features: - Fix hard breaks at the end of each line when copying multiple lines from a PDF - Add highlighting capabilities with memory capabilities and color options
- Aaron
- Function expected: enabling two page scrolling view will make it perfect
- Bharat Singh Irom
- It would be wonderful to have an option that allows highlighting in different colors for greater flexibility and emphasis
- Marinho Falcão
- How can I split pages to view the PDF?
- Khoa Le Tan Dang
- no longer work with Vivaldi in the past 2 months :( otherwise, it's the one of the best Google product in the past few years.
- Valentina Krivko
- Such a helpful extension! I would like to see a function to translate highlighted piece of text into the preferred language in the near future though
- John Noel Maape
- loads PDFs quickly with important points on the side. would love to see a highlighter tool though
- Tanzil Sultan
- Great
- Yc F
- good
- Gavin Ray
- To everyone saying "It doesn't work anymore!", make sure you enable "file://" access for viewing local PDF's. You can find this in the extension settings, under "Allow access to file URLs". Absolute banger of an extension, really useful and significantly enhances my personal research experience =)
- Julian Hesse
- PDFs are not loading at all. Thought my browser was not working, but it is this extension that stopped working :/
- mohammad z
- amazing ;), but it would be better if we could edit(highlight) pdfs.
- Parth Patel
- It was working all fine a week before but now it does not load pdf and keeps loading forever. Please resolve the issue. Good tool otherwise.
- Muhammad Adil
- Not Working
- Andrea De Polis
- It never loads the pdf when used in Vivaldi.
- Tharaka Sampath
- Add hand writing, highlighting and taking notes features. It will be a blast!!!
- Nimanyu Joshi
- PDFs are not loading due to this extension.
- Tim Benham
- Horrid. PDFs simply stopped loading.
- 江小勛
- Good functions. But it makes the text in pdf look blurry (especially when zoomed out). anyone knows how to resolve it?
- Robin Song
- This is an excellent extension, practical and efficient. Adding highlighting and commenting features would further enhance the user experience and work efficiency. Looking forward to future updates!
- LJ McVeigh
- GOOD
- Homme Hu
- There is a shortage that we cannot use the extension to highlight or marks the important sentences and words.
- wei ziang
- we need highlight function!!!