Google Scholar PDF Reader Alternatives

Google Scholar PDF Reader is described as 'Supercharge your paper reading: follow references, skim outline, jump to figures, cite and save' and is a PDF Reader in the web browsers category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Google Scholar PDF Reader for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best Google Scholar PDF Reader alternative is SumatraPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Google Scholar PDF Reader are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, Evince and MuPDF.

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  1. A simple PDF Reader built using Electron and PDF.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. In version 8, Google Chrome introduced a free PDF viewer, installed by default. While this plug-in lacks many features of the Adobe Acrobat Plug-in, it is much faster and lighter, and updates with the browser rather than an external utility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
     
  3. A privacy-first, client-side PDF editor that runs in your browser. Edit, annotate, merge/split, compress to target sizes, OCR scanned PDFs, and convert files—no signup, no watermark.

    35 Free PDF Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. ePDFView icon
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    A simple PDF document viewer, in the lines of Evince but without using the Gnome libraries. ePDFView is a free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. The simplest PDF viewer. Safe (doesn't require permissions), lightweight (just 6,9MB) and modern.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
     
  6. Comic Book Reader is the viewer you need to enjoy all your electronic publication. It is available both as Desktop and Windows 8 Metro UI for PC and tablets.

    97 C.B.R. - Comic Book Reader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. SimplePDF icon
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    Simple macOS PDF reader with ChatGPT integrated. You can chat with your local PDF. The returned response can cite the page number to ensure correctness.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Read, edit, annotate, and sign PDF documents with built-in AI features like summarize and translate, OCR in 50+ languages, fill forms, export to major formats offline, apply watermarks, compress files, secure with passwords, and use text-to-speech on all major platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  9. Anthology icon
     1 like

    Sleek E-Book reader app.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. Xpdf icon
     12 likes

    Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Bookworm icon
     15 likes

    Read the books you love without having to worry about different format complexities like epub, pdf, mobi, cbr, etc.

    34 Bookworm alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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