Immersive Reading
English Assistance
A large amount of academic literature in English comes with highly specialized vocabulary, precise expressions, and very complex grammar.
ivySCI provides convenient English assistance. By selecting an unfamiliar word with the mouse and clicking on the lookup icon, you can look up its meaning. If it is a whole sentence or paragraph, ivySCI also provides translation for us. ivySCI does not provide full translation of the entire document because it aims to help us gradually adapt to reading, thinking, and writing in English, without being limited by Chinese. Translated literature can lead to misunderstandings and distort the original text.
Text and Image Comparison
Academic literature often contains complex images with various colors, thicknesses, and different shapes. Therefore, authors usually spend a considerable amount of space interpreting figures and tables. However, it is troublesome because the explanatory text and the figures are often not on the same page. We often have to scroll through the PDF document, switching between the text and the images, sometimes seeing the image but not the text, and sometimes seeing the text but forgetting the image.
ivySCI's innovative text and image comparison reading feature allows us to simply click on "Fig" or "Table" on the text to view the corresponding figure or table. This way, we no longer need to scroll through the PDF and can fully immerse ourselves in the paper.
Reference Tracking
References are the most important feature of academic literature. They help us track important concepts, facts, and theories. However, tracking references in a PDF document can be very cumbersome. First, we have to scroll to the end of the PDF and locate the reference we are looking for from a dense list. Then, we need to copy the title, open a browser to search for it, and if we can't find it, we need to copy the author and journal information step by step. It takes at least 3 minutes for one article.
Solution: ivySCI identifies references in the literature and automatically highlights them. By clicking on the highlighted link, we can view the reference. You can also configure custom literature download engines, such as scihub or ResearchGate, according to your preferences.
On the right side of the reading panel, we list all the references in order. We can also click on the title to view the details or download the literature.
Frequently Asked Questions
- The PDF is not clear, blurry, or appears to be cut off.
This problem is caused by hardware acceleration of the integrated graphics card. Please try turning off hardware acceleration in the software settings and restart the software. The PDF should be displayed clearly. To access the software settings, click on the avatar icon in the lower right corner and select "Software Settings".
- The PDF displays garbled characters or does not appear, with large blank areas.
This is because the fonts in the PDF are not embedded, making it unable to be displayed on certain operating systems. We can manually handle this issue for users, but since it is a manual operation, we can only provide this service to paid members. Please obtain the contact information of customer service through the help page or send an email to help@ivysci.com, attaching your PDF file. Email subject: PDF Transcoding.
- Does ivySCI support custom PDF bookmarks?
ivySCI supports native PDF bookmarks.
If the PDF does not have bookmarks, ivySCI will try to recognize them, but the recognition effect depends on the layout of the PDF.
We currently do not support manually annotating bookmarks.
However, if you really want to do it, we suggest adding a note and then adding a bookmark tag to the note. This way, you can achieve a similar effect to bookmarks.
Why doesn't ivySCI support the caj format? Caj is an exclusive format of CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). However, after CNKI underwent anti-monopoly rectification, it now provides PDF downloads, so you no longer need to download the caj format.
Can PDF literature be downloaded?
Yes, after opening the literature, you can find a download button in the upper right corner of the reader. Click on it to download.
PDFs can also be exported in batches. In a specific project, select project operations, and there is a PDF export option.