EasyRead
Read research papers next to the PDF, with your own AI
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Details
- External ID
- 1268489
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- EasyRead
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3309652131308182
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
An open-source paper reader. Read a clean version of the paper beside the original PDF, highlight, take notes, and ask your own AI model about any passage. Keep it in English or translate into six languages. Runs locally.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai-powered education and skill training platforms
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- side-by-side ai reader for research papers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A client-side PDF viewer (e.g. PDF.js) alongside an extracted markdown view with local LLM (Ollama or WebLLM) API integration for chat and translation.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #126 of 305 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.
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