chenxiachan / textfold
Fold papers, web pages, files, and AI replies into five levels of detail. Zoom from an overview to the original text.
Why this job: works in the areas we cover, but does not say which job it does





What it does
- Words that travel. As you zoom, every word that stays slides to its new place and the rest fade around it.
- Zoom under your fingers. Stop halfway, turn back, or open one paragraph alone.
- Beside the original. Open a paper's or a PDF's own pages next to the text, each paragraph shown where it stands on its page.
- Ask AI about exactly what you read. Select a passage, or ask about the whole text: the short answer comes first, and each point links to the paragraph it rests on. With Look it up on the web, an agent on your computer searches the web too.
- Your language. Read in many languages, translated sentence by sentence, with every formula as typeset. A document's own levels are written in its own language.
Get started
python3 -m pip install textfold
python3 -m textfold serve- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 3 days ago
- Stars
- 1,019
- +93 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- 2 systems
- Mac, Windows
- Latest version
- v0.10.50
- Released 3 days ago
- Built with
- Python
- 61% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 6
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 88% closed
- 7 still open
- Pull requests
- 56 merged
- 3 waiting
- Releases
- 46
- 30+ in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Download files, v0.10.50
- Mac2 files, 48 downloads
- Windows1 file, 149 downloads
Languages
- Python 61%
- JavaScript 26%
- CSS 8%
- TypeScript 5%
Topics
- arxiv
- llm
- local-first
- open-source
- paper-reader
- research-papers
- semantic-zoom
- translation
Project record
- JobOther AI tools
- StatusListed
- Commits560
- Forks90
- Watching5
- Stars in 28 days+804
- CreatedOct 4, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 12, 2026
