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PDF Embed Api - coordinates of the highlighted text

New Here ,
Jan 24, 2021 Jan 24, 2021

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Hello,

 

Is there a way a to retreive the coordinates of the  highlighted text in the viewer. 

We are listening to AdobeDC.View.Enum.PDFAnalyticsEvents.TEXT_COPY and we wantto get the coordinates of the copied text.

 

The event parameter does not contain the coordinates details, is there a way like to execute a command and then get the coordinates of the highlighted text?

 

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Jan 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021

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Thanks for using PDF Embed API. If you are selecting the text in the viewer, you will receive an event (PREVIEW_SELECTION_END), which might help your cause.
Please visit https://www.adobe.io/apis/documentcloud/dcsdk/docs.html?view=view. You will get the required information under section Basic events.

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Jan 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021

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Thanks

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Feb 03, 2021 Feb 03, 2021

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We are able to get coordinates now, the next step is to translate these values into the boundbox and or quadpoints for a new highlight annotation. Is this possible? We want to automatically create an annotation object right after some text(s) are highlighted setting the bodyValue as the highlighted content.

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Feb 08, 2021 Feb 08, 2021

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Are you sure you want to do that? What if the user highlighted more or less than they intended. My suggestion would be to capture the selected text and if a highlight is added but a new selection is made without adding a body value to the previous highlight, set the bodyValue to the previously selected text. 

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Feb 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021

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Yes, that is what we are trying to accomplish.

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Feb 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021

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I'll put together an example and you can see how I did it. I'll need a day or two.

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