Bug 421028

Summary: allow for text selection during review/annotations
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Viktor <viktor.marinkov>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: aacid, nate, viktor.marinkov
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Viktor 2020-05-04 23:00:07 UTC 
I would like to be able to quickly select and copy text while remaining the the "Review/Annotation" mode. Currently, I am required to ctrl+4 to enter text select and then F6 to return to Review. These are unnecessary steps and quite inconvenient for a mouse-heavy workflow such as reading pdfs.

Ideal solution:
Have a smart "Browse/Hand" tool which switches to text selection when hovered over text like all other pdf viewers.

Second best:
Allow for text selection without exiting Review mode and possible allocate an additional shortcut without ctrl. Maybe ` as it is before 1?