Research Reader

Research Reader is an AI-powered PDF reader built with Tauri + React + TypeScript.

It supports:

• Smooth PDF viewing (scroll, zoom, navigation)
• Highlights, sticky notes, and annotation sidebar
• AI chat panel with document-aware context
• Voice input (push-to-talk) and TTS output
• Markdown + LaTeX rendering in AI responses

Tech Stack

• Tauri 2
• React + TypeScript + Vite
• Zustand
• PDF.js via react-pdf

Local Development

1. Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:ayushdeolasee/research-reader.git
cd research-reader

2. Install dependencies:

npm install

3. Run the desktop app in development mode:

npm run tauri dev

Notes

• AI features use BYOK (bring your own API key) from the in-app AI settings panel.