Highlights in pdf

[Yamen Saleh]

Good day

Is there a way to highlight the search term inside the pdf in pdf.js?

Thanks

[Seth Shaw]

There is... but no one has connected all the wires together yet.

PDF.js includes a "Find Controller" (https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/82dede0458fdaf80961c328ee5ea1a5fef2f4aca/web/pdf_find_controller.js) with an "execute" function (https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/82dede0458fdaf80961c328ee5ea1a5fef2f4aca/web/pdf_find_controller.js#L115) which allows you to execute a search programmatically. E.g.

pdfFindController.executeCommand('find', {
    caseSensitive: false, 
    findPrevious: undefined,
    highlightAll: true, 
    phraseSearch: true, 
    query: "myQuery"
});

The problem is that no one here (that I'm aware of) has taken the time to figure out how to take the search terms and run this bit of JS on the item's page. I'm sure many people will be very happy when someone does figure it out and shares it with the rest of us.

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[david...@wwu.edu]

Here is one attempt at solving that problem for our Islandora 7 instance:

https://bitbucket.org/wwulibraries/wwu_islandora_pdfautosearch/

[Yamen Saleh]

I can see it was implemented for Islandora 7 but not 8, why not add it as out of the box feature?

I think this is very good feature.

I will try to figure out how to do it, if I success i will share it.

Regards