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ReadLayer: automatic highlights in Web & PDF

by readlayer

v0.4.2 Updated Apr 18, 2024 5.55MiB
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Description

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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Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu downloads Can manage and monitor downloads storage Can store data locally in your browser webNavigation Can monitor navigation events

Details

Version 0.4.2
Updated Apr 18, 2024
Size 5.55MiB
First Seen Mar 28, 2026