Adobe Reader PDF Text COPY : kanji + furigana copied

漢字 · かんじ

Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

The image below is of a PDF open in the latest Adobe Reader ; as you see, the text copy selection also grabs the furigana, producing slightly problematic results as plain text.

Web page copies tend to place the furigana in-line, which is even worse!

A typical result from Adobe Reader follows:

夜の　

ちやう

帳にささめき尽きし星の今を　

げかい

下界　の人の鬢のほつれ

よ

Is the last item furigana or not?

Compare my Curl markup example in this blog post. The MIT Curl browser plugin is available at the Tokyo SCSK site.

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Curl markup for non-selectable furigana in plain text copy

漢字 · かんじ

Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

The image below shows a poem selected with a mouse swipe WITHOUT the furigana text being selected.

Because Curl poetry markup uses macros, this can be set by a user to copy furigana INSTEAD of the kanji !

The size of the furigana and its visibility can be user options.

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web site without selectable text

It seems that http://www.anohana.jp/ is an example of a web home page without selectable text ( at least in this version of the Chrome browser.)

What feature might a browser add to have SOME selectable kanji for annotation ?

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