clayadavis

function getHightlightCoords() {
  var pageIndex = PDFViewerApplication.pdfViewer.currentPageNumber - 1; 
  var page = PDFViewerApplication.pdfViewer.getPageView(pageIndex);
  var pageRect = page.canvas.getClientRects()[0];
  var selectionRects = Array.apply(this, window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).getClientRects());
  var viewport = page.viewport;
  var selected = selectionRects.map(function (r) {
    return viewport.convertToPdfPoint(r.left - pageRect.left, r.top - pageRect.top).concat(
       viewport.convertToPdfPoint(r.right - pageRect.left, r.bottom - pageRect.top)); 
  });

clayadavis

"""
Add copy to clipboard from IPython!
To install, just copy it to your profile/startup directory, typically:

    ~/.ipython/profile_default/startup/

Example usage:

    %clip hello world
    # will store "hello world"