Google Scholar PDF Reader
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Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Overview

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

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. • Scan a table of contents. Interested in methods, results, or discussion? Click the section to go straight to it. • Click in-text figure mentions to see the figure and the back button to keep reading. • 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. By installing this extension, you agree to the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.

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Apurba PaulJun 12, 2024

This is great. Solves a huge problem of looking at reference while reading. Just one request: Add commenting and highlighting features.

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Jiří KleplJun 12, 2024

The tool is great. Sadly, reading a lot of papers causes the scholar website to think you are a robot and it requires you to do a CAPTCHA (quite often); also, when this happens, the plugin is confused and doesn't give any proper warning or anything (you have to know what's happening and then manually visit the scholar website to resolve the issue).

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Joaquin PelleJun 10, 2024

It has been very useful, significantly improving my paper reading experience with its reference visualization. However, it is frequently overridden by Chrome's PDF viewer (I use Chrome on Linux). As a result, I must repeatedly disable and re-enable it since there is no option to set it as the default reader within Chrome. This is quite frustrating, and it's a pity because the tool itself is very helpful. I hope this issue is fixed soon.

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Details

  • Version
    0.1.4
  • Updated
    June 7, 2024
  • Size
    3.13MiB
  • Languages
    41 languages
  • Developer
    Google LLC
    1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043 US
    Website
    Email
    scholar-chrome-extensions@google.com
  • Trader
    This developer has identified itself as a trader per the definition from the European Union.

Privacy

Google Scholar PDF Reader has disclosed the following information regarding the collection and usage of your data. More detailed information can be found in the developer's privacy policy.

Google Scholar PDF Reader handles the following:

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This developer declares that your data is

  • Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
  • Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
  • Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes
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