Is there a built-in text selection feature in PyMuPDF (like in standard PDF readers)?

[seifeddine-ouyahia]

Hi 👋

I know there are some powerful tools in PyMuPDF-Utilities,
but they don’t seem to be consolidated into a single library.

I’d like to know if there is any built-in or ready-to-use way in PyMuPDF to achieve
the same text selection behavior as standard PDF readers (dragging the mouse, highlighting text, copying, etc.).

Or does this need to be fully implemented manually using page geometry and text spans?

Thanks!

[JorjMcKie]

Please have a closer look at the various README file there:
This repository is intended as a collection of examples for doing things with PyMuPDF.
These examples have been created over many years. Therefore, some may now be outdated or may no longer work because of API changes, or may no longer be helpful because of PyMuPDF improvements.

We will not keep these examples up to date in any reliable or regular way. Use them at your own risk. We will gladly accept change requests for any improvement you can identify.
But we will not accept issue for the content of this repository.

[JorjMcKie]

If you are looking for a greatly improved text extraction to either plain text or markdown-styled output, I do recommend using our package pymupdf4llm, v0.2.0 together with the brand new PyMuPDF-Layout package.
This provides advanced AI-powered page layout analysis, integrated OCR, table recognition and much more.
All this without heavy, time-consuming installations, expensive resource consumptions (no GPU required) and extremely long runtimes (10 times faster than the competition).