Lector

Finding a good PDF reader is easier to find nowadays than it ever was. In short, today Adobe’s Acrobat Reader is not the only tool of this sort in town. In fact, PDF readers are so important that most OSes and even browsers have then built-in.

While users have a plethora of good options out there, most day-to-day users only require the most basic of tools that PDF readers offer. If that’s the case, then Lector might be worth your attention, as it brings to the table the most basic features wrapped in a stylish and modern GUI.

Developed using technologies such as Electron and PDF.js, Lector is a simplistic PDF reader that supports multiple tabs, meaning users can work with multiple documents in an efficient fashion.

It also has a few versatile document navigation tools (located in the left-side pane) and provides the possibility to quickly find words, zoom in and out, as well as print PDF documents. Users can view the documents’ thumbnails, view their outline (their structure), and view all the included attachments in the panel on the left side of the main window.

However experienced or inexperienced users are with working with PDF readers, Lector should fit right in, as it’s designed to be as simple and as user-friendly as possible. The main GUI components of the app are a simple menu bar, a practical toolbar, the aforementioned document structure panel, and the actual viewer which takes priority in the app’s main window.

From the File menu, users can view the selected document’s properties, its file name, and size, the title, author, subject, and associated keywords, the creation and modification dates, as well as the page size, and actual page count. To get started with the app, users simply have to download the installer and deploy it on their computers via a streamlined and hassle-free process.

To conclude, Lector is a very practical tool that will definitely come in handy to all users looking for a no muss, no fuss PDF reader. It keeps things simple, it makes managing and reading PDFs an effortless task, and it does all that while looking at home on all Windows 10 computers thanks to its black-themed GUI.