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Compare Chrome extensions: OrbitNote vs Open in PDF Reader

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Stats OrbitNote OrbitNote Open in PDF Reader Open in PDF Reader
User count 6,000,000+ 100,000+
Average rating 3.38 3.51
Rating count 137 49
Last updated 2024-03-06 2022-12-15
Size 2.68M 50.28K
Version 6.0.18 0.3.2
Short description
Create, convert, connect: take your digital documents to the next level with OrbitNote. Send PDF links directly to your favorite PDF viewer like Adobe Acrobat Reader
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Create, convert, connect: take your digital documents to the next level with OrbitNote.

Searching for a way to make digital documents accessible, dynamic and more collaborative?

Download OrbitNote to transform and interact with digital documents in a completely different way! With OrbitNote you can make digital documents accessible and actionable, while demonstrating and giving feedback in multiple formats. It’s a great tool to boost productivity, connections and collaboration!

Open digital documents in Google Drive, OneDrive, on the web app, in your LMS (Google Classroom and Schoology), or on your local device, then use OrbitNote to:

• Collaborate in real-time within digital documents • Read text, including math & science equations, aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting • Type text on top of your PDFs with the Text feature • Highlight and extract information with colored highlighters • Add text and voice comments or use pushpins for helpful hints or instructions • Use freehand or shape drawing to scribble and draw on your digital documents • And more!

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The "Open in PDF viewer" extension opens PDF files directly in your favorite external PDF viewer application. To use the extension, right-click on a PDF link and select the "Open in PDF viewer" item. The extension downloads the PDF file in your default downloads directory and then executes the external command to open the downloaded file with the default PDF viewer (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader or FoxIt PDF reader).

Note that to execute an OS-level command, you need to install a native client. Native client installation guide appears on the first usage.

Features:

  1. Open PDF files from right-click context menu
  2. Transfer already opened PDF files to the external PDF viewer by pressing the browser's action button
  3. Detect PDF links and open them with left-click
  4. Open the external PDF viewer with a user-defined delay
  5. Supports most common PDF viewers

Change Logs: 0.1.1: It is now possible to define left-click open in default PDF reader from the options page. If this mode is enabled, the extension blocks the default action when a link with the PDF mime type is the target. 0.1.2:

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