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Hi @TheBFid! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the Stirling-PDF team. Text selection and pan mode toggling are both supported in Stirling-PDF 2.1.0. The hand cursor means Pan mode is active, which lets you move the document but not select text. To select and copy text, you need to toggle Pan mode off—look for a toolbar button labeled "Pan Mode" or a hand icon and click it. When Pan mode is off, your cursor should change to a pointer, and you can click and drag to select text as expected. If clicking the hand icon or Pan Mode button doesn't switch modes, try refreshing the page or using a different browser, as this could be a UI sync issue. The selection layer is always present unless Pan mode is active, so toggling Pan mode should restore text selection functionality. If you still can't select text, you can use the search feature to highlight and copy text as a workaround, or check for any recent UI bugs in your environment. For more details on the tools and UI, see the official documentation and recent feature updates. To reply, just mention @dosu. How did I do? Good | Irrelevant | Incorrect | Verbose | Hallucination | Report 🐛 | Other
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@dosu, when I type the url of my Stirling server (192.168.1.129:8080) and login there are errors: index-eY8R6TOv.js:327 |
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The console errors you’re seeing—blocked analytics, cookie consent failures, and Stripe.js HTTPS warnings—are expected in self-hosted or development setups and don’t affect core PDF viewing or text selection features in Stirling-PDF. The Stripe error just means your server is running on HTTP instead of HTTPS, which is fine unless you need payment integrations; you can enable HTTPS if needed by following the SSL/TLS setup guide. The issue with Pan Mode not toggling to text selection is a UI synchronization bug: the button’s appearance can change without actually switching the interaction mode, and this happens silently without console errors. The selection tool is always present unless Pan Mode is active, but the UI can get stuck due to how the button state is managed internally. There’s no workaround documented yet—refreshing, clearing cache, or restarting sometimes helps, but if not, it’s a limitation in the current version. Your documents and server setup are unaffected by these errors and the bug; it’s just a UI issue with the viewer’s toolbar state management. To reply, just mention @dosu. How did I do? Good | Irrelevant | Incorrect | Verbose | Hallucination | Report 🐛 | Other
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@dosu, Even after rebooting all machines, using different browsers and looking at the console for the browsers, are you telling me that there is nothing else I can do? Is this just a bug? If so how many other people have reported this? It seems odd that this would not be a documented bug. |
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Yes, this is a bug in Stirling-PDF 2.1.0. The Pan Mode button only toggles a local flag and doesn’t always sync with the actual document state, so the viewer can get stuck in Pan mode and block text selection—even if the button looks toggled. This is a UI synchronization issue in how the toolbar interacts with the underlying PDF viewer bridges. I checked the documentation, GitHub issues, and recent pull requests—there’s no mention of this bug, no official workaround, and no evidence that other users have widely reported it. Other UI bugs have been tracked, but not this specific problem with Pan Mode and text selection. So it appears to be rare or overlooked and not yet documented or fixed in the codebase or release notes (source, source). At this point, there’s nothing more you can do from the user side. If you want to monitor for a fix, keep an eye on future updates or changelogs. If you have any other questions about Stirling-PDF, let me know! To reply, just mention @dosu. How did I do? Good | Irrelevant | Incorrect | Verbose | Hallucination | Report 🐛 | Other
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Sorry for the bot, we are investigating this issue to see if we can reproduce it our side |
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I am running Stirling-PDF version 2.1.0. I can't believe I am asking this but I can't determine how to select text! I have documents that have already had OCR performed in Acrobat. I can search and find text in Stirling but I can't for the life of me figure out how to select the text thus enabling me to copy it. I see the hand meaning I am in Pan mode. I can click the image of the hand that supposedly toggles Pan mode off and on but it has no effect. I only get the hand when my cursor is on the document. Claude and Gemini tell me to click on the cursor/selection tool, but I can't seem to find it. What am I missing?
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