Overview
This component not only allows the user to select the text, the end user can also select a particular area in the PDF and mark it under a particular label.
The highlights created by the user will be listed in the sidebar with details. The sidebar also gives the option to delete the highlights. The end user can move around the highlights in the PDF document by selecting the highlight in the sidebar. The sidebar label is customizable by passing it as a input to the component and you can able the hide the sidebar from the end user. The labels of the highlights will be displayed over the highlight when the user hover over any highlight.
This component can also be integrated with the Appian interface, to move around the highlights in a PDF document.
Key Features & Functionality
Hi Andrey, i am using web viewer component to highlight the particular text in document, i am passing that value as a local variable to searchTerm parameter, when local variable changes the highlighted value should be change. How can i acheive that?
You can check out the following component that can be used for highlight text in a PDF: https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/pdftron-webviewer-component. To pass the text, simply pass the XML string with text you want to highlight into: https://www.pdftron.com/blog/appian/view-and-edit-pdf-and-word-documents-with-appian/#xfdfannotationdata, Let me know if you have any questions.
Hi PGarg,
You can't pass the text for highlighting. You need to click and drag over the text to highlight and add comments to it.
Hellos,
I have a requirement to highlight a particular text in a PDF, Can this plugin be utilized for the same? If yes, how I can pass the text?