Keyboard-focused, rapid searching PDF tool aimed at research / tech docs
Seems to understand portability
https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/issues/25
Status: Untested, but expect to look at this in the coming month.
License: GPLv3 (open source freeware)
https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-to ... oyek.shtml
https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comme ... igned_for/
https://alternativeto.net/software/sioyek/
Sioyek - PDF viewer, research tool
Re: Sioyek - PDF viewer, research tool
Update : now at v2.0.0 and it's portable ...
Sioyek is a bit like if you were using JPEGView but for PDFs. It's very straightforward and keyboard driven.
If you work with PDFs a lot and don't mind having another window open with the various shortcuts while you get used to the program, it's fantastic. Very low on distractions so you can focus on what you're reading.
Steps: Download the portable zip file from https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/releases and unzip. Launch sioyek.exe.
Status: Portable, writes to the app folder
Config note: I am a huge fan of Regex but to enable this you need to modify a config file: prefs.config and make a small change to the "fast search" line (delete the # sign in front):
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More on this: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/issues/407
Sioyek is a bit like if you were using JPEGView but for PDFs. It's very straightforward and keyboard driven.
If you work with PDFs a lot and don't mind having another window open with the various shortcuts while you get used to the program, it's fantastic. Very low on distractions so you can focus on what you're reading.
Steps: Download the portable zip file from https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/releases and unzip. Launch sioyek.exe.
Status: Portable, writes to the app folder
Config note: I am a huge fan of Regex but to enable this you need to modify a config file: prefs.config and make a small change to the "fast search" line (delete the # sign in front):
FROM:
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super_fast_search 1
Re: Sioyek - PDF viewer, research tool
Multi-platform (Linux and MacOS binaries available) Sioyek is a command and keyboard driven PDF viewer with a peculiar set of features, so I'm bumping its topic by adding some further info:
Due to its quirky nature, a read of Sioyek's online documentation is highly recommended before use.
Sioyek keyboard shortcuts can be easily viewed by pressing SHIFT+: and its configuration resides in editable plain text files:
*) To know about their content, check https://sioyek-documentation.readthedoc ... base-files.
Being FLOSS, OFC Sioyek source is freely available; there's a newer alpha release dated 2024-09-11 at Github. As noted above by webfork, Sioyek latest release is v2.0.0 from 2022-12-16.
Intro video:
Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers.
You can extend Sioyek using external commands and scripts. For example you can add OCR, translation, and text to speech...
Due to its quirky nature, a read of Sioyek's online documentation is highly recommended before use.
Sioyek keyboard shortcuts can be easily viewed by pressing SHIFT+: and its configuration resides in editable plain text files:
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keys.config <= Default Keyboard Shortcuts
keys_user.config <= User Keyboard Shortcuts
last_document_path.txt <= Last Opened PDF Location
prefs.config <= Default Program Preferences
prefs_user.config <= User Program Preferences
local.db ||
shared.db ||> Program SQLite Data*
test.db ||Being FLOSS, OFC Sioyek source is freely available; there's a newer alpha release dated 2024-09-11 at Github. As noted above by webfork, Sioyek latest release is v2.0.0 from 2022-12-16.
Intro video: