Add search button to Omeka S Universal Viewer

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Hi all, I’d like to add a button to search text within my PDF documents. I am running the Universal Viewer module on my Omeka S site. After a few days looking around the web and trying to figure this out on my own I am still unable to do so.

In short: this is what I have https://eastbaypunkda.com/s/east-bay-punk-digital-archive/item/622#?c=&m=&s=&cv= 1

And this is what I’d like to have https://neptun.unamur.be/s/neptun/item/1167#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0 1

I’ve looked at a number of sites and it seems like many of them have different configurations, but I can’t seem to figure out where I need to be making these changes. I was able to hide the footer by editing the config.json file, but I can’t seem to be able to do anything else from there. What I really need is the search button, but it wouldn’t hurt to figure out how to make other changes as well. I tried to look for documentation and reverse-engineer those other websites but have been unable to find anything helpful – their config file seems similar to mine. The only thing I can think of, is that the IIIF server plugin somehow processes the file differently? I also wonder whether that's an issue with the plugin or whether there's something about Universal Viewer that I am missing. The only resource that addresses searching is the following http://ronallo.com/iiif-workshop/search/uv-search.html#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&r=0&xywh=-1336%2C-498%2C6931%2C7922 but even there, it seems to only show what rather than how.

The person who compiled the plugin kindly suggested I'd install the module IiifSearch to use search inside Universal Viewer, but the installation instructions suggest changing a setting that just doesn't exist in the IIIF Server module. 

Hope I didn't miss anything else that was posted on the topic, I promise I did my homework before posting here!! Many thanks

- S

[Edward Silverton]

Hi,

I'm afraid searching pdfs isn't supported functionality at the moment. I'll add it to our next community call agenda (feel free to join btw, details here: https://iiif.io/community/groups/) as I imagine this is something others might want too.

All the best,

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[Stefano Morello]

Hi Ed! Thank you for your reply and for the invitation! I am such a newbie and would certainly like to be more involved.

I am just a little confused – you're saying it's not supported but I found many instances on the web that show otherwise, including the two examples I posted above ( 1. https://neptun.unamur.be/s/neptun/item/1167#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0 and 2. http://ronallo.com/iiif-workshop/search/uv-search.html#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&r=0&xywh=-2354%2C-499%2C9419%2C7922 ). What am I missing? 

[Edward Silverton]

Hi Stefano,

The current build of the UV uses a stripped-down version of PDF.js for the PDF extension without their built-in viewer, which was causing problems. The Openseadragon extension has search, but is only for IIIF image api images.

[Yanru Bi]

Hi Edward,

May I ask when's the next community call? I am interested in PDF search in UV too.

Best regards,

Yanru

[Edward Silverton]

Hi,

The next UV call is on April 4th: https://iiif.io/community/groups/#community-groups

[Edward Silverton]

Hi,

We had a chat on the community call about adding pdf search. It looks like it can be done:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35501417/how-to-search-with-pdf-js

You could try playing around with this using my pdfjs example: 

https://github.com/edsilv/pdfjs-example/

If you get it working let us know!

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