Pdf.js: Highlight Selected Text using PDFjs
I want to Highlight Selected text which is selected by mouse using PDFjs. please help me in solving this
ParthBDesai
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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
on 16 Nov 2016
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
on 2 Oct 2017
Who determined that it's out of scope. Seems entirely arbitrary.
idibidiart
on 10 Jul 2018
@ParthBDesai Can you reopen this issue?
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
on 21 Oct 2018
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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?