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Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by wolverine876 »

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.

IIRC, pdfjs is used by Google also, and was based on Foxit? ? Does anyone know?

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by aragonite »

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.

Jumping back works in SumatraPDF (backspace).

STDU Viewer might also be worth looking into. Default shortcut for jumping back is ctrl+z.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by newzisforsukas »

superkuh wrote: post #2

That's nice and all, but google scholar recently removed all the 'cited by' 'related articles' and other links from the HTML pages of google scholar. It was like this for about two months before they restored the functionality. It likely they will remove it again soon. Google scholar is getting worse, not better. The google devs have no idea what a typical academic's computer is like around the world. They dev for th…

What are the base hardware requirements for a JavaScript PDF reader where it isn't "slow"?

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by elektor »

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.

Where are you accessing Zotero V7? My understanding is that it is currently V6.[1]

[1] https://www.zotero.org/download/

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by lxgr »

Looks great, but can you imagine Google pulling the rug under an academic's document/citation database?

I don't even want to imagine having to migrate all annotations and citations to something else when they inevitably pull the plug on it some years down the road.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by [deleted] »

lxgr wrote: post #35

Looks great, but can you imagine Google pulling the rug under an academic's document/citation database? I don't even want to imagine having to migrate all annotations and citations to something else when they inevitably pull the plug on it some years down the road.

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Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by resolutebat »

lxgr wrote: post #35

Looks great, but can you imagine Google pulling the rug under an academic's document/citation database? I don't even want to imagine having to migrate all annotations and citations to something else when they inevitably pull the plug on it some years down the road.

Huh? This tool just parses PDFs, it doesn't require academics to actually do anything.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by lxgr »

resolutebat wrote: post #37
lxgr wrote: post #35

Looks great, but can you imagine Google pulling the rug under an academic's document/citation database? I don't even want to imagine having to migrate all annotations and citations to something else when they inevitably pull the plug on it some years down the road.

Huh? This tool just parses PDFs, it doesn't require academics to actually do anything.

Hm, I got the impression they store notes and annotations to your Google account, but maybe I'm mistaken.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by SkyMarshal »

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.

Just found this one I hadn't seen before, free version may suffice: https://highlightsapp.net/

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by zuminator »

elektor wrote: post #34
Depurator wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Where are you accessing Zotero V7? My understanding is that it is currently V6.[1] [1] https://www.zotero.org/download/

https://www.zotero.org/support/beta_builds
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