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Side Reader

✨ AI-Powered
👥 813 users
📦 v1.1.10
💾 3.27MiB
📅 2026-03-22
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Overview

Side Reader is a Chrome extension that allows you to read and chat effortlessly with any PDF on the ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek website.

You can read a PDF while chatting with them. After selecting words in the PDF, a button list will pop up. You can translate or explain the selected words by clicking the buttons without the need for frequent pasting and copying.

You can regard Side Reader as an alternative for PDF.ai and ChatPDF.

Buttons of toolbar:
- Translate
- Explain
- Summarize
- Copy
- Copy to Input

Tags

Productivity/tools productivity/tools

Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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