How to enter text selection mode after FIND, without touching mouse?

[synamwf]

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC The PDF-XChange Editor Version 10.7.2.400, 2 monitors.
Desired workflow:
Find “TEXT” get blinking text selection cursor at end of TEXT on page; {CRTL}+{End} selects RestOfLineText.
How to enter text selection mode after FIND, without touching mouse?

1) Search box (preferred)
Using CRTL+f to find “TEXT” hit enter until correct text is selected.
How do I get a text selection curser at the end of TEXT, without touching mouse?
Then how do I select from Text to end of line {shift}+{end} does not work.), without touching mouse?
2) Search Pane:
Crtl+Shift+f activates the pane but does NOT deactivate the pane. (Pane remembers its width so you helped someone else on the forum in the past).
Nothing but clicking [X] seems to make it go away? What can be done?
I customized toolbar to assign {Alt}+6 and Crtl+{Space} to the Select Text Tool, neither ifs giving me a blinking cursor, without touching mouse.
3) select All {Crtl}+A, {End} then navigate with arrows. (Not a viable workflow but at least I can see what a blinking curser looks like. Apparently sometimes with {shift}+{End} I do not get the full RestOfLineText but only the last 1/2 with this undesired workflow.

I see https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe10/ and https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgebase but they did not help me .

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, synamwf

While there are many tasks that can be done mouseless, our software is not 100% keyboard navigable. At the moment, this is one area where the mouse is still needed.

By using the "customize toolbars" function, you are able to assign a hotkey to quickly enable the "select text" tool:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgeba ... nd-actions

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And it is possible to change the application "focus" back to the document frame with a hotkey (Ctrl+Home), while the search pane is still opened, but using these two in combination does not give an arrow key based "page-text cursor navigation mode", like you would see in MS Word. To achieve that, you do need to directly click on the text in question.

Kind regards,

[rakunavi]

Hello synamwf,

2) Search Pane:
Crtl+Shift+f activates the pane but does NOT deactivate the pane. (Pane remembers its width so you helped someone else on the forum in the past).
Nothing but clicking [X] seems to make it go away? What can be done?

Instead of the Search command (ID: cmd.search), which has the default shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+F assigned, the Search Page command (ID: cmd.view.search), which has the default shortcut key Ctrl+Alt+F assigned, allows you to toggle the Search Pane on and off as you wish.

Best regards,
rakunavi

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, rakunavi

Thank you, I keep forgetting that hotkey exists!

Kind regards,

[synamwf]

My ultimate objective is to use AutoHotKey for extracting these "RestOfLineText" segments into an XLSX from a whole folder full of PDFs . Any mouse operations tend to make that unreliable.
Are there any other strategies I did not consider?
What are the different pathways to get a text selection editor cursor?
Toggling the Search pane with {Crtl}+{Alt}+f is very useful. But it does not get me any closer to capturing "RestOfLineText" segments.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, synamwf

I am sorry to say that I don't believe you will be able to use autohotkey to accomplish this. Perhaps something like a screen reader software would offer what you need, but there is nothing I can think of that we offer to accomplish what you desire here.

Kind regards,

[synamwf]

I am pretty sure this was a capability when using PDF Exchange around 10 or 15 years ago.
Perhaps, the development team can find their way back to their roots or point out the last release that had that capability.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, synamwf

I checked with some senior team members and they can confirm it was not part of older versions of the Editor.

If it was 15 years ago, than it may have been part of the Viewer - but if that is the case, I do not know how to make use of this function. The Viewer has been discontinued for over 10 years now, but you can still download the most recent version of it here, if you would like to give that a try:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/dow ... scontinued

Kind regards,