Working with Text

Searching for Text

Selecting Text

The “Search Text” and “Select Text” tools, if enabled, allow you to search and extract the text of the document. The “Select Region” and “Select Whole Region” tools enable you to copy any region of a page and paste it into another application as an image (see “Copying and Saving as Images”).

Searching for Text

The “Search Text” button is enabled if the DjVu document creator included text information as part of the image (OCR was performed on the document).

To search for text:

1. Click the Search Text button    on the DjVu toolbar. The “Find Text” dialog box appears.
2. Enter text to find and click Find Next.

Options on the “Find Text” dialog box, including radio buttons in the “Search in” and “Direction” subpanels, enable you to search the current page or the whole document, search up or down the document from where your cursor is positioned, and specify how the search should match your entry.

You may also access the “Find Text” dialog box by choosing Navigate from the DjVu context menu, then Find….

Selecting Text

The “Select Text” button – and the options on the “Selection” submenu of the DjVu context menu – are enabled only if the DjVu document creator included text information as part of the image and did not restrict the end-user’s ability to save and print the document or copy or export text.

To copy text to the clipboard:

1. Click the Select Text button    on the DjVu toolbar. The cursor changes to crosshatches and letters. (Alternatively, choose Selection from the DjVu context menu, then Select Text.)
2. Drag a rectangle around the text you want to select.
3. Enter the keyboard shortcut C, or access the DjVu context menu and choose Selection, then Copy, as shown below.

You can now paste the text into any text editor.

To copy all the text on a page to the clipboard:

1. From the DjVu context menu, choose Selection, then choose Select All Text. All the text on the page becomes highlighted.
2. Enter the keyboard shortcut C, or access the DjVu context menu again and choose Selection, then Copy Text.

You can now paste the text into any text editor.