Our Verdict
A while back I critique GoodReader for the iPhone , and thought it was a superb app . In adapt the file import and viewing ( and listening ) app to the iPad , Good.iWarehas hit a abode test . The app work as easy and swimmingly as the iPhone translation , and it has a few extra tricks up its sleeve for good measure .
Most noted among these young features is that the app now enable you to import and catch documents from WWW - base file - sharing / backup website such as Dropbox , box.net , iDisk , and others . you’re able to also import and look at e - mail service attachment via the Mail app ’s document - sharing feature , and spell and view document from Google Docs . you could set GoodReader up to import files from local server via Wi - Fi . And thanks to confinement lift by Apple , GoodReader for iPad also enables you to reassign files from your Mac via USB .
school text Extractor : GoodReader for iPad can automatically distill schoolbook from many PDF data file and reformat it into a very readable format .
Text Extractor: GoodReader for iPad can automatically extract text from many PDF files and reformat it into a very readable format.
As with the iPhone version , GoodReader for the iPad offers a saucy interface that uses the iPad ’s extra silver screen real estate of the realm to allow for a view of your documents ( which you’re able to organize into folders ) on the left over helping hand side of the screen , and function you’re able to perform on panel on the correct script side .
The basal office , in increase to file viewing , admit thumbnail previews , search , file management ( which includes the power to protect files , asterisk them , commemorate them as read , create new files and folders , e - post files , rename file cabinet , make links to file cabinet , and even compress file and folders ) , and also browse and download file from entanglement sites .
This level of functionality is exceptional . What add an supererogatory sparkle to GoodReader is that it supports most common papers file types , while also allowing you to write and view Web pages ( either in HTML or Safari webarchive format ) , and download , listen to , or catch photos , audio , and video filing cabinet . Movies and music make for back without a hitch ; in addition to viewing photos within GoodReader , you’re able to also save them to your iPad ’s photo album .
The iPhone version of GoodReader ’s most telling feature congeal enables users to open , shop , read , bookmark , and search PDF files . The app also offers a feature film call “ PDF reflow , ” which mechanically take out text from PDF files and outputs a decipherable textbook single file , when possible . ( Some PDF files are essentially image files , and GoodReader ca n’t extract text from them , for lesson . ) All of the PDF features available in the iPhone version are present and work even better on the iPad ’s adult screen ; the multiple pick provided for navigating written document especially benefit from the extra distance .
While GoodReader tender a lot , it would be an almost double-dyed app if it enable you to skip and simulate text and mental image via the iPad ’s clipboard , and if it provided some kind of notational system feature , such as foreground or annotate capableness . It ’s ill-defined how difficult these would be to carry out from a programing distributor point of view , but it seems that Good.iWare ’s development team can accomplish some pretty bastardly feat .
[ Jeff Merron is a free lance writer and editor living in North Carolina . ]
