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Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by random3 »

Depurator wrote: post #19
sorenjan wrote: post #6

Does anyone have any recommendations for good local PDF readers for Windows? I've been reading a lot of various papers recently, and clicking on a citation in Acrobat reader is very frustrating. The document scrolls to show the citation in view, but doesn't clearly show it in the long list that most papers have, and then I have to scroll up to where I was since it doesn't seem to have a working back feature.

Zotero's V7 reader is great, built on pdfjs (Mozillas pdf reader) and adds neat things like notations and dark mode.

is it possible to point Zotero to a local dir with papers, or am I forced to import documents into it?

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by random3 »

drmaximus wrote: post #7
sorenjan wrote: post #6

Does anyone have any recommendations for good local PDF readers for Windows? I've been reading a lot of various papers recently, and clicking on a citation in Acrobat reader is very frustrating. The document scrolls to show the citation in view, but doesn't clearly show it in the long list that most papers have, and then I have to scroll up to where I was since it doesn't seem to have a working back feature.

Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed exactly for reading research papers and textbooks: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek .

Sioyek seems awesome, especially vim inspired features. Too bad u (undo) doesn't work and there doesn't seem to be a way to undo. Am I missing something or is it laking it?

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by airstrike »

sorenjan wrote: post #6

Does anyone have any recommendations for good local PDF readers for Windows? I've been reading a lot of various papers recently, and clicking on a citation in Acrobat reader is very frustrating. The document scrolls to show the citation in view, but doesn't clearly show it in the long list that most papers have, and then I have to scroll up to where I was since it doesn't seem to have a working back feature.

SumatraPDF if you want speed above all else

DrawboardPDF if you want something more full featured and like to annotate, highlight, bookmark and whatnot, particularly if there's any chance you'll also use a stylus

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by airstrike »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #20
sorenjan wrote: post #6

Does anyone have any recommendations for good local PDF readers for Windows? I've been reading a lot of various papers recently, and clicking on a citation in Acrobat reader is very frustrating. The document scrolls to show the citation in view, but doesn't clearly show it in the long list that most papers have, and then I have to scroll up to where I was since it doesn't seem to have a working back feature.

Same question but for MacOS. There don't seem to be many good ones for it.

Unfortunately, Preview has been the best reader in my experience. I say "unfortunately" not because it is inherently bad, but because it is a sad state of affairs when nobody can build something better than the barebones native tool

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by moritz »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #20
sorenjan wrote: post #6

Does anyone have any recommendations for good local PDF readers for Windows? I've been reading a lot of various papers recently, and clicking on a citation in Acrobat reader is very frustrating. The document scrolls to show the citation in view, but doesn't clearly show it in the long list that most papers have, and then I have to scroll up to where I was since it doesn't seem to have a working back feature.

Same question but for MacOS. There don't seem to be many good ones for it.

Try Skim

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by severine »

random3 wrote: post #22
drmaximus wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed exactly for reading research papers and textbooks: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek .

Sioyek seems awesome, especially vim inspired features. Too bad u (undo) doesn't work and there doesn't seem to be a way to undo. Am I missing something or is it laking it?

I found this related issue: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/issues/633

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by Tomte »

sorenjan wrote: post #6

Does anyone have any recommendations for good local PDF readers for Windows? I've been reading a lot of various papers recently, and clicking on a citation in Acrobat reader is very frustrating. The document scrolls to show the citation in view, but doesn't clearly show it in the long list that most papers have, and then I have to scroll up to where I was since it doesn't seem to have a working back feature.

Okular. You don’t need the rest of KDE. It has a Windows installer and I think it‘s also in the Windows Store.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by specproc »

Depurator wrote: post #19
sorenjan wrote: post #6

Does anyone have any recommendations for good local PDF readers for Windows? I've been reading a lot of various papers recently, and clicking on a citation in Acrobat reader is very frustrating. The document scrolls to show the citation in view, but doesn't clearly show it in the long list that most papers have, and then I have to scroll up to where I was since it doesn't seem to have a working back feature.

Zotero's V7 reader is great, built on pdfjs (Mozillas pdf reader) and adds neat things like notations and dark mode.

I love zotero. The combination of annotation, highlights, document management and a healthy plug-in ecosystem are just killer for me.

It feels a bit dated sometimes, but I'm yet to find anything that comes close.

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