is it possible to select text or click a link in pdf?

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is it possible to select text or click a link in pdf?

Closed this issue 2 years ago · 6 comments

tigran000 commented 6 years ago

kennylbj commented 6 years ago

+1

Answer 1 · 2018-11-01T21:13:47.000Z

This would be a nice improvement.

Answer 2 · 2019-09-06T14:04:46.000Z

this is needed 🍡

Answer 3 · 2019-09-20T16:15:38.000Z

Yeah one day we'll need to investigate how react-pdf handled this and port it over.

https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf/blob/master/src/Page/TextLayer.jsx

They have a TextLayer that is drawn over top I think. Any work/pulls on this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 4 · 2020-11-30T15:50:43.000Z

Hi, work on selectable text has been done in the past here:
https://bitbucket.org/ridethepony/react-pdf-js/commits/1b24f41dc763a29883d2c6a1e5fea7ff67a24a28?at=dev
up to
https://bitbucket.org/ridethepony/react-pdf-js/commits/2cc05868cb8e96ca594b1d9fae1c397cf01cca3d?at=dev
This repo was originally forked from https://github.com/mikecousins/react-pdf-js to https://github.com/ridethepony/react-pdf-js and now moved to bitbucket.
Maybe this helps?

Answer 5 · 2022-09-16T05:00:10.000Z

Due to trying to keep this one pretty minimal I think I'm going to pass on adding this for now. It will take quite a bit of code and there are some other libraries that do this well already. I want to try to keep this one super lightweight.