# Selecting text

This mode is useful when selecting text on page. It behaves like expected from text selecting. Word and line order is respected on pages with horizontal text lines (most of pdf files).

Text selection is very simple using this mode. The selection starts when mouse left button is pressed on a text element. (If the mouse is over a text element the cursor changes to ibeam.) When dragging, text is selected line by line. The selection is limited in how the text elements are stored in the pdf document (some documents have text elements equal to letters, to words, to lines or arbitrary).

Note: When a text on one line is written using different fonts it is very likely that it will be parsed into more lines. This is due to the fact that the base vertical positions are different and without wild guessing it is almost impossible to distinguish between text on one with different fonts and text on more lines with different fonts.