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Originally Posted by scotty1024
The trick to a dictionary is you usually want to pop it up while reading, check a word, then pop it back down and continue reading.
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...in an ideal world this would be handled by an extension of mutant-bionic-ipdf. Highlight a word (if it's not a bitmapped pdf, but that would not be ideal, of course.) and send it to the (dictionary) helper application (which in a very very ideal world could to be defined per file in the manifest or by some kind of language tags and a matching table. I have English, German and French documents on my iLiad and sometimes a document has multiple languages).
Maybe in an ideal OS there was somehow a way to integrate stuff like this in some kind of framework that could be called "service" and would be available in every application :-)))
Another thought:
If I understand a little how differently pdf's are organized maybe it's easier to let the user draw a box and find all the letters in it than finding all lines and words in advance and let the user use a highlighter?
And just another Sci-Fi thought:
In a paradise-and-heaven-like world bitmapped pdf would be no problem of course but would be fed to tesseract :-)))
Well, it's christmas soon, maybe if iRex, Santa and the Tooth-Fairy get together to work for us?
#!chris