Pdf.js: Highlight Selected Text using PDFjs

Created on 16 Nov 2016  路  5Comments  路  Source: mozilla/pdf.js

I want to Highlight Selected text which is selected by mouse using PDFjs. please help me in solving this

picture ParthBDesai
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Considering most PDF readers provide this feature, it would be quite a deal-breaker feature (for me) as a user. Is it impossible to implement within PDF.js?

picture hyiltiz on 2 Oct 2017
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The text layer consists of div elements, each containing a word, sentence or character. Getting the selected text is not a trivial task because of this. If you know which div is selected, you can probably do something like http://stackoverflow.com/a/5379408 to get the selected text content. Closing as this is out of scope for the PDF.js project itself.

timvandermeij picture timvandermeij on 16 Nov 2016
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Considering most PDF readers provide this feature, it would be quite a deal-breaker feature (for me) as a user. Is it impossible to implement within PDF.js?

hyiltiz picture hyiltiz on 2 Oct 2017
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Who determined that it's out of scope. Seems entirely arbitrary.

idibidiart picture idibidiart on 10 Jul 2018

@ParthBDesai Can you reopen this issue?

mingwugmail picture mingwugmail on 16 Oct 2018

pdf-tools in emacs can deal with this https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/399. I would think pdf.js could also do this too.

hyiltiz picture hyiltiz on 21 Oct 2018
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