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If you want to try it out on a PDF, I have implemented this in sioyek PDF reader:

You need to enable experimental features in `prefs_user.config` by adding `enable_experimental_features 1` and then enable this mode using `toggle_fastread` command within sioyek.

I also experimented with more sophisticated algorithms, you can read about the experiment here:

https://ahrm.github.io/jekyll/update/2022/04/14/using-langug...

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(Developer of the Github repository in the post here)

Is it possible for me to easily integrate with sioyek to provide PDF converting ability directly within the Chrome Extension? This would be useful for the following reasons: - For the times when you click on a link and it opens the PDF in Chrome - Many people I know use Chrome as their main "PDF Viewer" app.

I believe this will be a great way for both our OSS projects to collaborate.

Perhaps in the future we can work on the language model as well. Very cool reasearch btw!

I am not very familiar with chrome's PDF API (or lack thereof) but I doubt that it is possible.

Correct, it's not possible in default PDF view in Chrome -- contentscript is not injected. However as long as you have full access to pages, you could intercept a PDF link, render it with, say, PdfJS, and start from there. Maybe!

I forgot to mention that you need to also add this line to your `prefs_user.config`:

use_heuristic_if_text_summary_not_available 1

excuse me sir but can you explain me how sioyek is different from zathura?