beelinereader.com

Make PDFs easier to read using BeeLine Reader's award-winning technology.

Latest Version

Version

2.7.16

Update

February 23, 2021

Size

1.95MiB

Developer

beelinereader.com

BeeLine Reader PDF Viewer Extension

Reading PDFs has never been easier, or faster! BeeLine Reader's technology has won awards from Stanford University and the United Nations, and now you can use it to read PDFs in Chrome!

Want to be able to read PDFs faster? Many people can read 20% faster with BeeLine Reader. Best of all, BeeLine Reader doesn't impair comprehension like some other speed reading tools.

Independent studies have shown that BeeLine Reader's technology dramatically increases reading fluency, and BeeLine Reader is used in schools, colleges, and universities around the world.

For educational licensing, email [email protected]

Details:

This PDF viewer will add BeeLine's color gradients to text (not scanned) PDFs for viewing in Chrome. In addition to opening PDFs in Chrome by clicking on a PDF's link, you can also drag a PDF from your desktop into a Chrome window, which will launch the BeeLine Reader PDF Viewer. The BeeLine Reader PDF Viewer is built using the Mozilla PDF.js project; the Mozilla license is available at: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/master/LICENSE

Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

Melissa (ID: 00000057caa66173) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 09/13/2023 I have an eye tracking problem and I need software like this to read my assignments so please stop paywalling accessibility. This should be FREE FOR STUDENTS!

Nicole Ahmed (ID: 000000a5eb87142e) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 08/07/2023 There is a cost to use this extension which is not made clear in the description. Moreover their pricing plans look like you would be charged twice for using their services on a single browser (Chrome): $55 annually for PDF support $24 annually for web page support The pdf viewing itself is fine as it based on the pdf.js mozilla work (https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js) Worked well for making pdf easier to read with the 5 page free limit. Also works with a dark theme (dark background light text), But after the first 5 pages which are free - the text becomes black on black so its useless for this unless you pay.

Ida Marshall (ID: 000000b3c46f4654) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 05/23/2023 Didn't function at all

Beldades Word (ID: 000000e0ad738ad7) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 05/06/2023 só dá pra usar se pagar. tem outros que são gratuitos e tão bons quanto esta extensão.

M R (ID: 000000e619db5712) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/25/2023 Almost perfect for my purposes, i.e. reading recently-exported PDFs, usually constructed via LaTeX. This extension manages to flawlessly render thousands of equations, from superscript to thrice-nested subscript, all while preserving smooth scrolling and crisp boundaries on rendered features. Having said that, BeeLine Reader PDF does have the occasional technical problem. First, while creating a custom color scheme, the selected color will sometimes jumps to pitch-black, particularly in the upper-left quadrant. Second, the applied gradient will occasionally transition suddenly, i.e. between two characters, rather than throughout the affected line; this happens with perhaps one "color boundary" per rendered document, and does not substantially affect readability. Third, and less centrally: printing BeeLine-rendered PDFs still appears to be in the developmental stages. I've found that printing a pristine TeX-based document in 600dpi yielded low-res printouts, far from the crisp text of the original as was rendered on-screen. That said, it DID print with the applied gradient, so I'd call it a neutral outcome. Fourth, finally, and *least importantly*, certain keyboard shortcuts do not work while reading PDFs via BeeLine Reader: CTRL-\ does not cycle between Page View options as it does in Edge, and ESCAPE does not close out of the color-picker's drop-down menu as one might expect. But the above is an exhaustive list of all the negatives, from my experience. As such, given its price, I'd rate BeeLine Reader PDF in its current form at 4.5 stars ("who cases lol" --- you, I'm guessing). If/when the GUI issues mentioned are fixed -- fingers crossed -- I'll be calling it perfect for the *vast* majority of PDFs created within the past 20 years. Don't expect it to fix up your janky-ase crooked old copy of "Baby Rudin" which you plucked out of lipgem-dot-whatever, though. In the words of a wise and sagacious leader: c'mon, man.

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