Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.

Latest Version

Version
2.1.421
Update
December 2, 2024
Size
39.97MiB
Developer
texthelp.com
Category
Users
10,000,000+
Rating
3.50191 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
Bahasa Indonesia
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English (UK)
English (United States)
Français
Español
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Permissions
ActiveTab
ContextMenus
Storage
Tabs
Identity
Identity.email
Scripting
Management
Offscreen
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Gcm
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Read&Write for Google Chrome™ Extension

Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles.

Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:

• Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting

• Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained

• With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying

• Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type

• Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research

• Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs

• Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting


Install Read&Write for Google Chrome to access ALL of these features FREE for 30 days!

Teachers can get a FREE premium subscription to Read&Write for Google Chrome. To register and activate your subscription, go to texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/free-for-teachers/ after installing the Read&Write for Google Chrome trial.

Get more information on Read&Write for Google Chrome™ features, licensing, and pricing at
texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/premium-features/
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Source Manifest.json

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How to download and manually install Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Read&Write for Google Chrome™ Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension file

Select and download the Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Read&Write for Google Chrome™ extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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Eric Dunbar (ID: 0000009af6f75e20) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 05/17/2024 Cannot disable. Even the "Enabled" selection in the extension no longer pretends to work to prevent it from popping up on websites. Pure garbage that chews up memory and CPU cycles and leads to browser instability. How can this company produce something that cannot be disabled when force installed? Update. Three years later and the extension is still very poorly written. Now it cannot even be hidden anymore.

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Google Administrator (ID: 0000007957292657) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 11/06/2023 This app was okay it worked on my device thankfully you can remove this school app unlike the others.

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Trevor Edmondson (ID: 000000479343786e) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 11/01/2023 DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS! I was in my career development class and we were doing a assignment on Google Docs, and as I'm doing my work I see a tab that I can click on, and when I click it, it this big image of an arrow on my screen. I tried to refresh the page, I tried to close the tab, I shut off my chrome book, but still... nothing. Not even the tech guy at our school could figure out what happened, or how to get it off. I eventually found out that the school download this on our accounts and we can't uninstall them.

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Derby Caster (ID: 000000e63bfb09a8) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 10/09/2023 My school installed this on all of the school computers and made it so that you can't remove it, and when you try to remove the access, it restarts the computer and adds it again. It has this annoying tab thing that shows up on every website and won't go away, and sometimes, the extension randomly opens by itself and asks me to log in with Google. The UI is ugly, it looks like they just found a bunch of icons off of google and slapped them on there. Overall, 3/10

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Benjamin Mason (ID: 000000b3354f31f5) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 10/02/2023 I have the app for school however I cannot log in as I use a chrome book so it only picks up mh google account