[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 343355] New: Allow highlighting by rectangle

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343355

            Bug ID: 343355
           Summary: Allow highlighting by rectangle
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.19.3
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: naught101 at gmail.com

The highlighter review tool is really useful, because it allows you to extract
quotes easily with other tools (e.g. zotero/zotfile).

The problem is that PDFs (especially OCR'd pdfs) are generally crap at
identifying text flow. So if you have a PDF with two columns of text, and you
want to highlight a multi-line section from one column, it often selects across
two columns. This makes for a fairly useless annotation. You can manually do it
line-by-line, but then you end up with lots of separate annotations that
require a lot of editing.

What would be good is a box-highlighter, that acts the same as the highlighter,
but is drawn as a rectangle, and highlights all of the words inside the
rectangle.

Of course, that doesn't help when your quotes are split over two columns, but
that's a fairly small edge-case, and probably can reasonably be ignored.

Reproducible: Always

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