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getEq

by LW · Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 21 Oct 2026

Paper reading assistant: hover over citations to instantly preview equations, figures, tables, etc.

Users
10
+2 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
3
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#199K
#166K among extensions
Version
1.0.0
updated 17 Feb 2026

Users

monthly, 8 months
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About getEq

getEq - Academic Paper Citation Preview Assistant Instantly preview equations, figures, tables & sections while reading research papers - No more disruptive page jumps! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 OVERVIEW getEq is a powerful Chrome extension designed specifically for academic researchers, graduate students, and engineers who read research papers online. By simply hovering your mouse over citation links (like "Eq. (5)", "Fig. 3", "Table 2"), you can instantly preview the referenced content in an elegant floating window - without losing your reading position or breaking your concentration. Core Value: Eliminate the friction in academic reading. Say goodbye to endless scrolling, clicking, splitting pages and "back button" frustration. Focus on understanding research, not navigating webpages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES 1. Smart Citation Detection Automatically identifies and enables preview for all types of academic references, for example: • Equations: "Eq. (1)", "Equation 2", "公式(3)" • Figures: "Fig. 1", "Figure 2", "图3" • Tables: "Table 1", "表2" • Sections: "Section 3", "章节4.1" • Algorithms: "Algorithm 1", "算法2" • Theorems: "Theorem 1", "Lemma 2", "Corollary 3" Works seamlessly across ALL academic websites - major publishers, preprint servers, and open-access journals. 2. Instant Hover Preview • Zero-click interaction: Just hover your mouse over any citation link • 250ms delay: Smart timing prevents accidental triggers while allowing quick access • Beautiful LaTeX rendering: Mathematical equations display perfectly with LaTeX support • High-quality content: See complete formulas, full-resolution images, formatted tables, and section text. Scroll bar is available in case of big previews • Context preservation: Preview window appears next to your reading position, never disrupting your flow 3. Draggable & Resizable Windows • Drag anywhere: Click and hold the title bar to reposition the preview window • Persistent viewing: Keep the window open while comparing with main text • Smart positioning: Automatically adjusts window placement to avoid screen edges ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 PROBLEMS SOLVED Before getEq: The Academic Reading Struggle ❌ Click on "Eq. (5)" → Page jumps to equation → Lose reading position ❌ Manually scroll back up → Where was I? → Lost train of thought ❌ Multiple windows/split screens → Cluttered workspace → Cognitive overload ❌ Repeat this 20-50 times per paper → Hours wasted on navigation → Frustrated and exhausted After getEq: Seamless Academic Reading ✅ Hover over "Eq. (5)" → Equation appears instantly → Continue reading ✅ No page jumps → Reading position preserved → Maintain concentration ✅ Single-window reading → Clean workspace → Maximum focus ✅ Read papers 2-3x faster → More papers reviewed → Accelerated research progress ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 UNIQUE ADVANTAGES 1. Universal Compatibility Works seamlessly across ALL academic websites that publish HTML papers, including major publishers, preprint servers, institutional repositories, and open-access journals. Whether you're reading on arXiv, major publisher sites, or university archives - getEq works everywhere. 2. Professional LaTeX Rendering Mathematical equations are rendered with MathJax, the gold standard for web-based math display: • Beautiful typography matching publication quality • Supports complex formulas with matrices, integrals, summations • Instant rendering with no lag • Consistent appearance across all websites 3. Intelligent Content Extraction Advanced parsing algorithms ensure you see the complete referenced content: • Equations with labels and descriptions • Figures with captions and context • Tables with headers and all data rows • Sections with titles and introductory paragraphs • Algorithms with complete pseudocode • Theorems with full statements and proofs 4. Zero Configuration Required • Install and start using immediately • No account creation or sign-up • No permissions for reading browsing history or personal data • All processing happens locally in your browser • Complete privacy protection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 QUICK START GUIDE Installation (30 seconds) 1. Visit Chrome Web Store and search "getEq" 2. Click "Add to Chrome" 3. Confirm the installation 4. Done! Open any academic paper and start hovering over citations Usage (Zero Learning Curve) 1. Navigate to any research paper website 2. Start reading normally 3. When you see a citation link (e.g., "Eq. (1)", "Fig. 3"): • Hover your mouse over it • Wait ~250ms • Preview window appears with the referenced content 4. To keep the window open: • Move your mouse into the preview window • Drag it anywhere on screen • Click the ✕ button or press ESC to close Pro Tips: • Hover slowly to avoid accidental triggers • Use ESC key for instant window dismissal • Drag windows to compare multiple references side-by-side • Works perfectly with browser zoom and full-screen mode ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PRIVACY & SECURITY Your privacy is our priority: ✅ Zero data collection - We never collect, store, or transmit your data ✅ Local processing - All features run entirely in your browser ✅ No tracking - No analytics, no ads, no third-party services ✅ Open development - Transparent development process ✅ No account required - Start using immediately after installation Permission explanation: • <all_urls> in content_scripts: Allows the extension to detect citation links on any academic website you visit. No data is collected or transmitted. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📧 CONTACT & SUPPORT Have questions, suggestions, or feedback? We'd love to hear from you! Please feel fre…

Growth

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Version history

1 versions recorded
1.0.017 Feb 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
17 Feb 2026
Size
71 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Extension ID
apfjlccoobppbmfbnjifohbdpinlbobh

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 2

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