[HN Gopher] Google Scholar PDF Reader
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Google Scholar PDF Reader
Author : gerroo
Score : 147 points
Date : 2024-03-20 16:03 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| superkuh wrote:
| 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 their lived experience and
| it's just not applicable. A javascript (slow, computationally
| expensive) pdf reader is just another aspect of this ignorance.
| xnacly wrote:
| I couldn't agree more, I dont want you displaying the pdf, let
| me download the file and view it with zathura
| adr1an wrote:
| Or Sioyek (vim keybindings!), Okular, Xournalpp, Zotero, ...
| adolph wrote:
| A js pdf reader they control has monetization possibilities.
| Slip in an interstitial page for Naturally Fun Arkansas with an
| article from Nature. You don't want scholar going the way of
| reader do you?
| newzisforsukas wrote:
| What are the base hardware requirements for a JavaScript PDF
| reader where it isn't "slow"?
| lukeinator42 wrote:
| Alongside this, I have found that Google Scholar's search has
| become noticeably worse in the last year or so. I can search
| for an author's name and a few keywords from a paper title and
| it won't show up, even if the paper has like 5000 citations.
| google234123 wrote:
| Are you sure this actually happened? I never noticed this. can
| anyone else collaborate? Maybe you installed some extension
| that messed with the html
| superkuh wrote:
| Yes, I confirmed it with 3 other people on IRC a couple
| months ago. I didn't know google scholar had restored it
| until I checked right before I wrote the above post. I
| thought the links were still gone. They had been the last
| time I'd used google scholar about 3 weeks ago. Back then I
| also confirmed it myself first using 3 different computers, 4
| browsers (with JS disabled), coming from 3 different IP
| addresses, both logged in to google and logged out. I
| probably wouldn't have started writing the post at all if I
| didn't think they were still gone.
|
| I figure in addition to the feedback they received from me
| (and presumably others) at the time they saw a drop in usage
| and restored the functional version. But they'll try again.
| google234123 wrote:
| I think you are wrong - I don't recall seeing this.
| Screenshots of scholar on twitter from feb, jan, dec all
| show those links
| sorenjan wrote:
| 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.
| drmaximus wrote:
| Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed exactly for reading research
| papers and textbooks: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek.
| random3 wrote:
| 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?
| severine wrote:
| I found this related issue:
| https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/issues/633
| wslh wrote:
| I am interested in knowing why and how Google Chrome is not
| enough?
| somethingsome wrote:
| Mostly too slow for a lot of content, not every content is
| supported, not easy to keep it open at the right page, no
| comments, not easy to find the right tab, etc.
| mikepo wrote:
| I've been using Sumatra PDF on Windows to read papers (and as
| my default PDF reader) for more than a decade. Clicking on a
| citation takes you to the bibliography page and lands the cited
| paper at the top of the screen. Then Alt-leftarrow brings you
| back.
| user- wrote:
| ive always used SumatraPDF because its super fast and free
| eitally wrote:
| What you might consider if finding an ebook reader app and
| using that. I had a similar issue but on Android (for ebooks
| not in kindle format). I ended up with Librera but there are
| several. Turns out it's also equally great at academic or work
| PDFs.
| somethingsome wrote:
| Just so you know: normally it scroll down so that the reference
| is on top of the page.
|
| But most importantly.. ALT+'left arrow' allows you to go back
| before you clicked on the citation! It doesn't work all the
| time, but usually it does after some left arrows ;)
|
| Also, in Android: you can click on the 'scrolling sign' on the
| right of the pdf and specify the page, or see the link to 'jump
| back' to before you clicked on a link!
|
| I hope that will help
| abhayhegde wrote:
| Irrespective of the OS, I recommend Zotero
| (https://www.zotero.org/).
| Nicksil wrote:
| Mozilla Firefox has put a lot of time into their PDF reader.
|
| https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/browsers/
| Depurator wrote:
| Zotero's V7 reader is great, built on pdfjs (Mozillas pdf
| reader) and adds neat things like notations and dark mode.
| random3 wrote:
| is it possible to point Zotero to a local dir with papers, or
| am I forced to import documents into it?
| specproc wrote:
| 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.
| kristjansson wrote:
| It looks a lot nicer after the recent design update!
| wolverine876 wrote:
| IIRC, pdfjs is used by Google also, and was based on Foxit? ?
| Does anyone know?
| Tijdreiziger wrote:
| PDF.js came out of Mozilla, not Foxit.
| wolverine876 wrote:
| Yes, but I think Mozilla may have started with code from
| Foxit.
| elektor wrote:
| Where are you accessing Zotero V7? My understanding is that
| it is currently V6.[1]
|
| [1] https://www.zotero.org/download/
| zuminator wrote:
| https://www.zotero.org/support/beta_builds
| SkyMarshal wrote:
| Same question but for MacOS. There don't seem to be many good
| ones for it.
| airstrike wrote:
| 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
| moritz wrote:
| Try Skim
| SkyMarshal wrote:
| Just found this one I hadn't seen before, free version may
| suffice: https://highlightsapp.net/
| airstrike wrote:
| 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
| Tomte wrote:
| Okular. You don't need the rest of KDE. It has a Windows
| installer and I think it's also in the Windows Store.
| aragonite wrote:
| Jumping back works in SumatraPDF (backspace).
|
| STDU Viewer might also be worth looking into. Default shortcut
| for jumping back is ctrl+z.
| ttul wrote:
| Now all they need is a way to grab documents from SciHub..
| abhayhegde wrote:
| This looks great! Since they link it all to one's Gmail account,
| I wonder if they implement saving annotations to these PDFs and
| have them live on your Drive or elsewhere.
|
| Edit: Also, Chrome now defaults to this extension for rendering
| any PDFs you load.
| meekaaku wrote:
| Does anyone know of a library (or reading material) that can
| render a pdf (mostly architectural drawings) on to webgl canvas
| as actual vectors not image?
| me_jumper wrote:
| Not sure if that's what you are looking for but mupdf can
| render to SVG.
| alecco wrote:
| Most important papers can be read with highlighting at
| https://www.semanticscholar.org/ (PDF Semantic Reader, skimming
| assist)
| lxgr wrote:
| 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.
| resolutebat wrote:
| Huh? This tool just parses PDFs, it doesn't require academics
| to actually do anything.
| lxgr wrote:
| Hm, I got the impression they store notes and annotations to
| your Google account, but maybe I'm mistaken.
| glial wrote:
| The Chrome Web Store page doesn't say anything about
| annotations.
| SamBam wrote:
| Has anyone tried installing this? It says "PDFs on all sites will
| have a new look in Chrome."
|
| This makes me nervous. I'm often looking at PDFs that are
| embedded in a page (either grad school software for commenting on
| PDFs, or publishers' sites). Is it going to play nicely with
| those? Is this only for navigating directly to a PDF?
| gnicholas wrote:
| My guess (as someone whose company makes a PDF extension for
| Chrome) is that it may intercept embedded PDFs as well.
| Sometimes sites use iframes or the like, and those get
| intercepted. But if the PDF is displayed through some sort of
| third party tool then it would be unaffected. Just my 2C/!
| cygnion wrote:
| Capturing and visualizing research knowledge is personally an
| exciting space. I feel that deep reading and absorbing content
| continues to be challenging, due to the ever-increasing amount of
| published research, rudimentary reading apps (Google PDF reader
| finally addressing issue with easily looking up references), and
| due to somewhat disconnected tools for reading and note-taking.
| Similar to the readers piggy-backing on the PDFjs library, I've
| developed an app that helps me capture and organize personal
| research knowledge [1]. Additionally, visualizations and
| customizable contexts for notes help to recall and link
| information.
|
| [1] https://www.knowledgegarden.io/
| antimora wrote:
| Can someone recommend an app for ipad that can read PDFs? I want
| to be able to bookmark using my browser but read it on my ipad.
| Sort of like "Save to pocket" extension.
| buildbot wrote:
| In theory the built in files app will work for this. However, I
| like goodnotes, which has good highlighting snd library
| support. I've used it since grad school for reading papers.
| Tortoise wrote:
| I really like PDF Expert for this. It's free. They have a
| subscription for some editing/advanced features, which I
| haven't tried.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-expert-editor-reader/id743...
| kristjansson wrote:
| Zotero w/ their first-party storage is the best I've found.
| kennydude wrote:
| I just wish Google Scholar would be a bit more open in terms of
| debugging why a site isn't picked up by the platform
| mixedmath wrote:
| I would also be interested to know how they decide _to_ pick up
| a site. I was very surprised to learn that a technical note
| posted only to my website was picked up somehow. (I am a
| mathematician and so there are other things on my site, but
| it's some custom static site generator thing and I'm still
| astounded).
| jinay wrote:
| Does anyone have a research paper reading tool they're happy
| with? Zotero is what meets most of my needs but I wish I could
| organize the papers faster and I wish the annotation tools were
| better. AI-assisted reading is a plus too.
| mixedmath wrote:
| What does AI assisted reading mean to you?
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