# Selection

Artifact: [androidx.pdf:pdf-core](https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/pdf) [View Source](https://cs.android.com/search?q=file:androidx/pdf/selection/Selection.kt+class:androidx.pdf.selection.Selection) Added in [1.0.0-beta01](https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/pdf#1.0.0-beta01)

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```
public interface Selection
```

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Known direct subclasses [ImageSelection](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/model/ImageSelection), [LinkSelection](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/LinkSelection), [TextSelection](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/model/TextSelection)

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| `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/model/ImageSelection` | Represents a specific image object selected from a PDF document. |
| `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/LinkSelection` | Represents a link within a PDF document that has been selected. |
| `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/model/TextSelection` | Represents text content that has been selected. |

Known indirect subclasses [GoToLinkSelection](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/model/GoToLinkSelection), [HyperLinkSelection](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/model/HyperLinkSelection)

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| `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/model/GoToLinkSelection` | A `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/Selection` for a goto link. |
| `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/model/HyperLinkSelection` | A `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/Selection` for a hyperlink. |

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Represents PDF content that has been selected.

## Summary

| ### Public methods |
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| `abstract @https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/annotation/NonNull https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/List.html<@https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/annotation/NonNull https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/PdfRect>` | `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/selection/Selection#getBounds()()` The `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/PdfRect` bounds of this selection. |

## Public methods

### getBounds

Added in [1.0.0-beta01](https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/pdf#1.0.0-beta01)

```
abstract @NonNull List<@NonNull PdfRect> getBounds()
```

The `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/PdfRect` bounds of this selection. May contain multiple `https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/pdf/PdfRect` if this selection spans multiple discrete areas within the PDF. Consider for example any selection spanning multiple pages, or a text selection spanning multiple lines on the same page.