Invisible but selectable text in PDF export

[arshan]

I am trying to make selectable but invisible text in a pdf export. Essentially, I am wanting to do a manual OCR-style overlay where invisible text will be above text that appears in an image (I'm hoping to do this for text searchability and accessibility).

What I have tried so far includes:
Adding a text frame but making the fill color for the text "none"
Putting the text on a separate layer and setting that layer's opacity to 0%

In both cases, the text just doesn't exist in the exported PDF at all.

Any thoughts on how to do this?
Thanks!!

[utnik]

hi arshan

i've just tested it in scribus 1.5.8 and 1.7.0.svn.
if i set the opacity of the text to 0%, it doesn't work. (no text exported...)
but with the opacity of the text frame at 0% and the text at 100% it is invisible, but selectable.

utnik