Highlighting, Defining Words on K3 - Problem with

[detacht69]

Hello, sorry if this has been posted before, but I wasn't quite sure what to search for..

While reading on my K3, I bring the cursor onto the page and when I try to define a word or highlight a passage, it seems to think the cursor is somewhere different than where I see the cursor. So far it's been in a pdf but I'm not sure if it does it on other formats.

So is this a known issue with known fixes or am I S.O.L.?

thanks.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by detacht69

Hello, sorry if this has been posted before, but I wasn't quite sure what to search for..

While reading on my K3, I bring the cursor onto the page and when I try to define a word or highlight a passage, it seems to think the cursor is somewhere different than where I see the cursor. So far it's been in a pdf but I'm not sure if it does it on other formats.

So is this a known issue with known fixes or am I S.O.L.?

thanks.

I've seen that behavior on specific PDFs, but not more generally (certainly most PDFs and most or all Kindle formatted content work fine).

If the PDF was scanned in, and then OCRed, it is possible that the page image and associated text do not line up well since they are completely independent representations. OCR text placement can only be approximate, since there are no font metrics available in a rasterized image to work with. That may account for what you are seeing.

You might load that PDF into Adobe Reader (or other PDF tool) and see if you have any similar highlighting issues. Kindle uses Adobe's software to interpret PDFs so I would expect both to have similar characteristics/limitations.

And if the PDF is just a scanned image, without an OCR step, you can't search or highlight text at all.

[Francesco]

I've seen that happen in poorly formated PDFs.