Disable text selection to avoid copy text in web viewer

[gopalak...@contentraven.net]

Hi,

I am using Pdftron webviewer v3.2.0. I need to Disable text selection in the web viewer to avoid copy text in web viewer. Can you please help to provide suitable solution for this.

Also I want to disable the Copy, Highlight, Strikeout, Underline, Squiggly menu options after selecting the text in the web viewer.

Looking forward to your reply.

Thanks & Regards,

Gopalakrishnan.S

[Matt Parizeau]

Hi Gopalakrishnan,

You can disable text selection using the following code in your config file (https://www.pdftron.com/api/web/Tools.Tool.html#Tool__anchor):

Tools.Tool.ENABLE_TEXT_SELECTION = false;

Once this is disabled you won't be able to select text on the document and the menu with "Copy" and text annotations won't appear.

Matt Parizeau

Software Developer

PDFTron Systems Inc.

[gopalak...@contentraven.net]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your response. I tried to call the below code in "DocumentLoaded" event and it is not working. 

Below is the code which I called in "DocumentLoaded" event.

var annotManager = readerControl.docViewer.getAnnotationManager();

annotManager.Tools.Tool.ENABLE_TEXT_SELECTION=false;

It is throwing the below error.

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Error loading document: TypeError: Cannot read property 'Tool' of undefined

    at Object.NH.onError.a.onError (CoreControls.js:1075)

    at CoreControls.js:1082

Can you please provide correct code sample in order to achieve this?

Looking forward to your reply.

Thanks & Regards,

Gopalakrishnan.S

[Matt Parizeau]

Hi Gopalakrishnan,

You don't need to modify the code that I provided at all, you can put it directly in your config file and it doesn't need to be in the documentLoaded event. The tools namespace is defined on the window and not on the AnnotationManager.
Tools.Tool.ENABLE_TEXT_SELECTION = false;

Matt Parizeau

Software Developer

PDFTron Systems Inc.