Utopia Documents
| Developer(s) | Lost Island Labs Ltd., a spin-out from the University of Manchester |
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| Development status | Active |
| Operating system |
Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, and Windows 7) Mac (OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and above |
| Platform | Desktop computer, Laptop computer |
| Size | 28.2 MB - Windows 33.8 MB - Mac |
| Type | PDF Viewer / Reader |
| License | GNU Public License v3 |
| Website | utopiadocs |
Utopia Documents is a semantic, scientific, web-enabled PDF reader that is part of the Utopia toolset. Utopia Documents can be downloaded for free.
The purpose of Utopia Documents is to help science move forward collaboratively. Because scientific knowledge is fragmented and often ‘buried’ in static content, there are many 'unknown knowns' in science. Much time is often wasted by repeating scientific experiments, by trying to verify facts, or by simply trying to find relevant further information. Utopia enables scientists to get the most from the scientific literature by providing links to appropriate web resources and metadata. Although Utopia is a PDF-reader, it bridges the web-connectivity gap with HTML content by making normally static PDFs fully web-enabled (as long as the user is online).
Since June 2, 2014, Utopia Documents changed their license to become open source under GPLv3.
Utopia Documents v. 2.1 is available for Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista and Windows 7), Mac (OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and above) and Linux (beta).
Utopia Documents can be used in the same way as any other PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader or the Preview application on a Mac. The application's workspace is split into three main panes (which can be collapsed): the PDF file itself is displayed on the left, a 'pager' is displayed at the bottom, and a sidebar to the right. The pager allows you to scan back and forth through the document and to move rapidly from one page to another. Although you can use Utopia Documents to look at any PDF file, the software really comes into its own as a reader for scholarly papers in the biomedical and biochemical fields.
The following data sources are accessed in Utopia Documents and activated automatically when there is relevant content to display:
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Wikipedia