Automatically highlights similar keywords or phrases on the web or PDFs

Latest Version

Version
0.4.2
Update
April 18, 2024
Size
5.55MiB
Developer
readlayer.com
Category
Users
73
Rating
4.66667 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
ActiveTab
ContextMenus
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WebNavigation
Alarms
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ReadLayer: automatic highlights in Web & PDF Extension

Find information faster, while you browse! Add and classify keywords or phrases relevant to you. Multi highlight. ReadLayer will highlight similar terms automatically each time you open a website or PDF.

Check the updates in our changelog: https://docs.readlayer.com/changelog

Features:

* Free
The free version of ReadLayer can be used standalone, and it includes a very complete and robust set of features:
• Multi-highlight, choose a color or assign it randomly
• Regular expressions (Regex)
• Similar terms: find similar phrases or terms, e.g., \"fatally injured\" also highlights \"fatalities as a result of work-related injury\", \"Gartenstraße\" also highlights \"Gartenstrasse\".
• Proximity: highlight only terms that are close to other terms - 1 or more (e.g., money values AND \"Exxon\")
• Highlights summary where you can navigate across the highlights
• You can display a note on a highlights when the mouse hovers on it
• Granular classification: add items to themes and activate/deactivate themes depending on you current research.
• Synonyms: each item can have more than one terms to represent it, e.g., \"Jon Snow\" and \"King Crow\" (the same person) are highlighted under the same item.
• Fine tune your search: case sensitivity, whole words, regex, diacritics sensitivity
• Support dynamic sites: highlights auto refresh on content changes (e.g., live news, online chat, etc.)
• Works in SVG text
• Multi-language
• Unlimited keywords, phrases or themes
• Import/Export your whole collection of terms in JSON
• Import terms from Excel file
• Export the highlights for easy processing
• Domain whitelisting/blacklisting: automatically highlight only the sites you want
• Add new items directly from the context menu
• No registration required
• Privacy: all your data is stored in your browser locally, only
• Privacy: all your collections are encrypted and compressed locally
• Sync your collections across your devices
• No ads, no noise
• Regular updates
• Free of charge

* Premium
ReadLayer Premium includes everything available for free, plus:
• Multi-highlighting in PDFs directly in your browser

Visit https://readlayer.com for more information, or the documentation at https://docs.readlayer.com.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "ReadLayer: automatic highlights in Web & PDF", "description": "Automatically highlights similar keywords or phrases on the web or PDFs", "version": "0.4.2", "manifest_version": 3, "default_locale": "en", "background": { "service_worker": "/scripts/background.ts.js" }, "permissions": ["storage", "activeTab", "contextMenus", "downloads", "webNavigation", "alarms"], "host_permissions": [ "" ], "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [""], "css": ["/css/hlight.css"], "js": ["/scripts/hlight.ts.js"] }, { "matches": ["https://readlayer.com/welcome"], "run_at": "document_end", "js": ["/scripts/webnotifier.ts.js"] } ], "web_accessible_resources": [ {"resources": ["/pdfviewer/web/viewer.html", "images/*.svg"], "matches": [""]} ], "action": { "default_popup": "index.html", "default_title": "ReadLayer", "default_icon": { "16": "/images/monocle_16x16.png", "32": "/images/monocle_32x32.png", "48": "/images/monocle_48x48.png", "128": "/images/monocle_128x128.png" } }, "icons": { "16": "/images/monocle_16x16.png", "32": "/images/monocle_32x32.png", "48": "/images/monocle_48x48.png", "128": "/images/monocle_128x128.png" }, "commands": { "_execute_action": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Shift+F", "mac": "MacCtrl+F" }, "description": "Search" }, "prev_hl": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Left", "mac": "Ctrl+Shift+Left" }, "description": "Previous highlight" }, "next_hl": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Right", "mac": "Ctrl+Shift+Right" }, "description": "Next highlight" } }}
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