Get the Selected Content

Users can drag the mouse or use their fingers to select text in the PDF document, obtaining the selected content in real-time.

This example shows how to Get the selected content:

swift

// Extract the selected text
let currentSelection = pdfview.currentSelection
let currentText = currentSelection?.string()

objective-c

// Extract the selected text
CPDFSelection *currentSelection = pdfView.currentSelection;
NSString *currentText = [currentSelection string];