Created attachment 179300 [details] Example PDF SUMMARY Text selection in Okular works differently from browsers (both Firefox & Chrome). Most PDF viewer software seem to select text in the same order they logically appear inside the PDF file rather than where they are located on the page. Selecting text by positional heuristics might make sense for PDF files produced by things like scanners / OCR readers, but makes no sense for files produced by Word documents, HTML files and such. I believe the default text selection behavior should match browsers', and the current behavior should be made available behind a configurable setting. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open the attached PDF file. 2. Select text. OBSERVED RESULT Text is selected in an unknown/different order. (See attachments) EXPECTED RESULT Text is selected in logical order. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS OS: Kubuntu 24.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.12 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.13 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I'm not sure if this issue has to do with the PDF backend specifically or the way document viewer UI handles text selection in general.
Created attachment 179301 [details] Okular text selection
Created attachment 179302 [details] Chrome text selection
Created attachment 179303 [details] Firefox text selection
This remains in Okular: 24.12.1 KDE Frameworks: 6.10.0 Qt: Using 6.8.1 and built against 6.8.1 KDE Flatpak runtime (Wayland) Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64 Kernel: linux 6.13.4-1-default OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.