Add Google Scholar PDF Reader as one of the pdf reader

Feature requests
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Hi,

I am a new Paperpil user. I would like to request one more option to open the pdf with “Google Scholar PDF Reader“. Youmay ask why?

  1. Automaticlu produce a new TOC based on the pdf
  2. Automaticly detected almost of the reference and support one clike load by right click open on Paperpile or as a link.
  3. Once you build the connection with google scholar reader, it comes to more easy to set up all google based research pipeline/workflow

Bests,

Liang

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Welcome to our forum, @Liang_Chen! I’ve recorded your +1 for the option to open PDFs with Google Scholar PDF reader for the team to consider in the future.

In the meantime, in the left sidebar of Paperpile’s PDF viewer, you can click the outline button to show the PDF’s table of contents, if one is available. See View and navigate PDFs | Paperpile Help Center for more details on navigating PDFs.

Just to make sure I understand correctly the second item in your list, are you looking for the PDF viewer to automatically detect references within the paper and allow you to open the matching Paperpile reference with a single click or right-click, or something else?

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Hi,

Yes, with the Google Scholar PDF reader, the reference/citation can be automatically detected, and when you hover the citation, it will show the link to the Google Scholar database, and you can right-click to load the reference into the Paperpile database. Let me find a screenshot：

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and Loading into Paperpile:

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And now you can see the convenience of the Google Scholar PDF reader if you also want to download/import the paper from the reference of a paper.

Bests,

Liang

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Thank you for sharing the screenshots; your requests to show the reference on hovering over the citation in the text and to have the ability to save references to your library directly from citations in PDFs make sense now. I’ve recorded your feedback for the team’s consideration.

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Would like to support Liang’s proposal. It would be an incredibly helpful addition to have both, but for the start the Hover-to-view references (preferably linkable, so they can be open in a new window to check (Google Scholar or if we have them already in Paperpile). This would save a lot of hustle going back-and-forth between text and final block with references. Thank you!