I am developing an application in Qt with Quick and some QML.

I need to interact with the contents of a pdf file opened inside of QPdfMultipageView. More specifically, I need the text to be selectable with mouse. Currently, there is no clear example in Qt documentation of how to achieve this with an already pre-defined view, such as PdfMultipageView.

ApplicationWindow {
    id: root
    width: 800
    height: 1024
    color: "darkgrey"
    title: doc.title
    visible: true
    property string source // for main.cpp

    PdfMultiPageView {
        id: view
        anchors.fill: parent
        anchors.leftMargin: sidebar.position * sidebar.width
        document: doc
        searchString: searchField.text
        onCurrentPageChanged: currentPageSB.value = view.currentPage + 1
    }

    PdfDocument {
        id: doc
        source: Qt.resolvedUrl(root.source)
        onPasswordRequired: passwordDialog.open()
    }


    PdfSelection {
        id: selection
        document: doc
        from: textSelectionDrag.centroid.pressPosition
        to: textSelectionDrag.centroid.position
        hold: !textSelectionDrag.active
    }

    Shape {
        ShapePath {
            PathMultiline {
                paths: selection.geometry
            }
        }
    }

    DragHandler {
        id: textSelectionDrag
        acceptedDevices: PointerDevice.Mouse | PointerDevice.Stylus
        target: null
}

In docs, under the PdfSelection type description, there is an example, but it does not include view, only the document. In my case, PdfMultipageView handles the input in first place, hence not letting it pass to the DragHandler, which, in turn, should handle and update text selection. Also, there is no property in the view related to its ability to handle input, so I cannot tell it to not handle the input – it is always interactive and I cannot change this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.