Selecting textlayer in a smoother way

[lfoppiano]

I'm working on a Streamlit pdf viewer using the pdf.js library programmatically, I've managed to do everything I wanted, show a PDF, show annotations, enable text layers, etc...

However, I have a small problem when one try to select text in the PDF. It's a general issue I'm having using the text layers, as soon as the cursor get out of the text layer, the selection goes south.

See an example in this screencast:

Screen.Recording.2024-08-20.at.07.26.42.mov

The implementation is here.

You can see a demo here (you must switch "enable text layers" on top-left).

If you have any feedback or suggestion, It would be great.

Thanks in advance

[radiachkik]

I am experiencing similar issues and would really appreciate some help. Is there something we can do in terms of configuration?

[lfoppiano]

I partially solve the issue by giving the text layer a higher z-index than the annotations, so that the text can be higlighted. However, I did not manage to get a much better effect.