Capturing text from an area in WebView

Asked Jan 06 '15 at 02:23

Active Jan 06 '15 at 02:35

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Say I draw a rectangle on top of an article rendered by a WebView. Let the two points on the screen: (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) represent the rectangle.

How can I obtain all the text within that rectangle in the WebView?

In other words, how can I associate a position on the screen to the word / html element in the underlying web page?

edited Jan 06 '15 at 02:35

asked Jan 06 '15 at 02:23

koopuluri

Do you want to select and copy text in webview? – Vikasdeep Singh Jan 06 '15 at 04:25
You can take screenshot of the screen and then crop the part you want – Tushar Gogna Jan 06 '15 at 04:40
@VicJordan: Yes I would like to copy the text. – koopuluri Jan 06 '15 at 04:56
To get selected text from webview in android check further links this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23979473/631803 – Vikasdeep Singh Jan 06 '15 at 05:13

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