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

[ned]

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

--- Comment #5 from ned <naught101 at gmail.com> ---
Try opening this PDF:
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/097/mwr-097-11-0739.pdf

In Okular, if you try to use the text-selection tool, it is not possible to
select, for example, just the first column of the Contents on page 1. You can
do it with the Rectangle selection tool. Similarly, you can not use the
highlighter review tool to just highlight the first column. But if you
rectangle-review the column, you can't extract the highlighted text as part of
the annotation, as you can with the highlighter tool's annotations.

Perhaps there is a broader bug here. In firefox, if you open that PDF, you
*can* select just the second column of the Contents, although if you try to
select the first column, it screws up a bit and selects a little bit of column
2 too. I guess firefox is using some kind of text-column detection? Perhaps
Okular could implement something like that? If it worked well, it would solve
this feature request for me.

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