Thanks! This looks like a really useful contribution to the open community of research tools. One feature which would be a prerequisite for me is a structured export of data I produced through interaction with PDFs.
Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
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Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately it currently can't. But I do plan to add it eventually.
Annotations are super useful. Please consider storing the annotations external to the PDF. For example, Okular wants to save these to the PDF itself. This doesn't work very well with a read-only network drive (read: corporate environment).
What do you mean exactly by annotations?
Sioyek currently does have a bookmark support which is external to the PDF (you can bookmark locations in PDF file and you can later quickly search in those bookmarks).
But I assume you mean some sort of visual annotation that is drawn on top of the PDF?
Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
#13Thanks! This looks like a really useful contribution to the open community of research tools. One feature which would be a prerequisite for me is a structured export of data I produced through interaction with PDFs.
The data is stored on a sqlite database file next to the executable.
Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
#14Some of the features: * You can middle click on a reference/figure to go to the reference/figure (even if the PDF doesn't have links) * You can middle click on a paper name in references to directly search it on google scholar * Searchable table of contents * You can mark locations by character symbols (vim style) Currently only the Windows build is available. Mac and Linux builds coming soon.
Thanks a lot for your effort. Especially the last feature. I had personally made some modifications to mupdf on my machine for doing this, and add annotations using shortcut keys. But MacOS Catalina somehow screwed up my GL, and it renders the page very oddly, so it no longer works. This reader seems great.
Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
#15Some of the features: * You can middle click on a reference/figure to go to the reference/figure (even if the PDF doesn't have links) * You can middle click on a paper name in references to directly search it on google scholar * Searchable table of contents * You can mark locations by character symbols (vim style) Currently only the Windows build is available. Mac and Linux builds coming soon.
Does the name mean 31?
Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
#16Some of the features: * You can middle click on a reference/figure to go to the reference/figure (even if the PDF doesn't have links) * You can middle click on a paper name in references to directly search it on google scholar * Searchable table of contents * You can mark locations by character symbols (vim style) Currently only the Windows build is available. Mac and Linux builds coming soon.
Does the name mean 31?
yes.
Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
#17Some of the features: * You can middle click on a reference/figure to go to the reference/figure (even if the PDF doesn't have links) * You can middle click on a paper name in references to directly search it on google scholar * Searchable table of contents * You can mark locations by character symbols (vim style) Currently only the Windows build is available. Mac and Linux builds coming soon.
Can't wait to try as soon as Lunux built is available.
Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
#18Thanks, I can use it for reading technical material.
Will it have true Dark Mode? This is something lacking if most if not all PDF viewers.
Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
#19Thanks, I can use it for reading technical material. Will it have true Dark Mode? This is something lacking if most if not all PDF viewers.
You can currently change the background color of the app (not the PDF) in the configuration file. We don't currently have True Dark Mode but it shouldn't be too hard to implement.
Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
#20Thanks, I can use it for reading technical material. Will it have true Dark Mode? This is something lacking if most if not all PDF viewers.
I tend to use a custom PDF darkmode in Firefox for this very reason. I can't find a decent PDF viewer that supports it. (Linux)