Author Topic: Creating automatic bookmarks in a pdf (Read 19911 times)

Contro · « **on:** November 14, 2012, 11:42 AM »

Creating automatic bookmarks in a pdf

I try to explain my very best. Sometimes I download a pdf of a a law with titles, chapters and articles.

And I would like to have bookmarks of the titles, chapters and articles of the law, and in general of any other subject.

So I need an OCR software to recognize all my needs. Or anyother similar.

Do you know anyone ?

kilele · « **Reply #1 on:** November 15, 2012, 10:27 AM »

It seems that Nitro (payware) has what you are looking for.
Maybe you can send a pdf to "google drive" and then process that document with an autohotkey script to insert bookmarks according to user-defined keywords..

dr_andus · « **Reply #2 on:** November 15, 2012, 11:24 AM »

Creating automatic bookmarks in a pdf

Sometimes I download a pdf of a a law with titles, chapters and articles.

And I would like to have bookmarks of the titles, chapters and articles of the law, and in general of any other subject.

-Contro (November 14, 2012, 11:42 AM)

Check out the product list at A-PDF (some of them are free), as they have a lot of specialist tools. You might find something that might automate at least part of the process. If all fails, they can also make you a customised tool.

Granted, a lot of these are one-trick ponies, but then one-trick ponies can be very useful sometimes...

(Disclaimer: I only tried their PDF Comment Collector; on the other hand, it did what it said on the can perfectly well.)

kilele · « **Reply #3 on:** November 15, 2012, 12:20 PM »

Jpdftweak has a feature to add bookmarks from a csv file,
there may be some commandline option to add entries to that csv,
so you would need a script to autogenerate that csv according to specific words in your pdf.

y0himba · « **Reply #4 on:** November 15, 2012, 12:58 PM »

Not to hijack a thread, but I need something else entirely. I have been trying to get a script to extract the bookmark, and the pages to the next bookmark, and name them after the bookmark. Like extracting chapters in a book to separate files.

I get a 500 page PDF with loan documents in it, bookmarked the Note, the Mortgage, Title policy etc. I need to extract those sections and hopefully name them after the bookmark. So if page 0 is bookmarked "Note", 1, 2 ,3, pages, then the next bookmark on page four is "Flood", I need pages 0,1,2,3 extracted to a file called "Note". Then the next to "Flood" and so forth through the entire file. I am using Acrobat Pro XI, so a javascript or sequence is preferred.

dr_andus · « **Reply #5 on:** November 15, 2012, 01:17 PM »

Not to hijack a thread, but I need something else entirely. I have been trying to get a script to extract the bookmark, and the pages to the next bookmark, and name them after the bookmark. Like extracting chapters in a book to separate files.
-y0himba (November 15, 2012, 12:58 PM)

Debenu PDF Maximus might be able to do something close to that. It's not cheap, though it does come up on BitduJour once in a while (I got my copy for zero dollars there).

Split by bookmarks — split files based on bookmark hierarchy

kilele · « **Reply #6 on:** November 15, 2012, 03:40 PM »

Not to hijack a thread, but I need something else entirely. I have been trying to get a script to extract the bookmark, and the pages to the next bookmark, and name them after the bookmark. Like extracting chapters in a book to separate files.
-y0himba (November 15, 2012, 12:58 PM)

hey I was checking if one of my fav apps Pdfsam could split by bookmarks and yes!
check it out and also Sejda , a commandline/webapp tool from the same developer.

Contro · « **Reply #7 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:01 AM »

It seems that Nitro (payware) has what you are looking for.
Maybe you can send a pdf to "google drive" and then process that document with an autohotkey script to insert bookmarks according to user-defined keywords..
-kilele (November 15, 2012, 10:27 AM)

I'll take a look to Nitro.
It's the OCR version ?

kilele · « **Reply #8 on:** November 17, 2012, 10:02 AM »

dunno ^^
take a look at
http://legacy.nitrop...ookmark_creation.htm

Contro · « **Reply #9 on:** November 17, 2012, 11:10 AM »

dunno ^^
take a look at
http://legacy.nitrop...ookmark_creation.htm
-kilele (November 17, 2012, 10:02 AM)

Running

Contro · « **Reply #10 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:16 PM »

I am not able to understand nitro.
Sorry.
I continue the list.

Contro · « **Reply #11 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:18 PM »

I am thinking again.
The more often case is when i have the word document. And the word document have a TOC.
But usually simply print with a pdf printer like pdf creator.
And perhaps the best moment to create bookmarks is in that moment. But I don't know how to do.

Contro · « **Reply #12 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:28 PM »

Adobe pdf have this function ?

Contro · « **Reply #13 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:30 PM »

Creating automatic bookmarks in a pdf

Sometimes I download a pdf of a a law with titles, chapters and articles.

And I would like to have bookmarks of the titles, chapters and articles of the law, and in general of any other subject.

-Contro (November 14, 2012, 11:42 AM)

Check out the product list at A-PDF (some of them are free), as they have a lot of specialist tools. You might find something that might automate at least part of the process. If all fails, they can also make you a customised tool.

Granted, a lot of these are one-trick ponies, but then one-trick ponies can be very useful sometimes...

(Disclaimer: I only tried their PDF Comment Collector; on the other hand, it did what it said on the can perfectly well.)
-dr_andus (November 15, 2012, 11:24 AM)

I don't see the tool.

Contro · « **Reply #14 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:37 PM »

Jpdftweak has a feature to add bookmarks from a csv file,
there may be some commandline option to add entries to that csv,
so you would need a script to autogenerate that csv according to specific words in your pdf.

-kilele (November 15, 2012, 12:20 PM)

Seems a manual supervision task.

have you tried ?

The levels and so in the nitro option seems to complicated for me.
But have you tried this ?

Best Regards

Contro · « **Reply #15 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:38 PM »

Not to hijack a thread, but I need something else entirely. I have been trying to get a script to extract the bookmark, and the pages to the next bookmark, and name them after the bookmark. Like extracting chapters in a book to separate files.

I get a 500 page PDF with loan documents in it, bookmarked the Note, the Mortgage, Title policy etc. I need to extract those sections and hopefully name them after the bookmark. So if page 0 is bookmarked "Note", 1, 2 ,3, pages, then the next bookmark on page four is "Flood", I need pages 0,1,2,3 extracted to a file called "Note". Then the next to "Flood" and so forth through the entire file. I am using Acrobat Pro XI, so a javascript or sequence is preferred.
-y0himba (November 15, 2012, 12:58 PM)

I don't follow you.
Are you using acrobat to create the bookmarks ?

Contro · « **Reply #16 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:39 PM »

Not to hijack a thread, but I need something else entirely. I have been trying to get a script to extract the bookmark, and the pages to the next bookmark, and name them after the bookmark. Like extracting chapters in a book to separate files.
-y0himba (November 15, 2012, 12:58 PM)

Debenu PDF Maximus might be able to do something close to that. It's not cheap, though it does come up on BitduJour once in a while (I got my copy for zero dollars there).

Split by bookmarks — split files based on bookmark hierarchy
-dr_andus (November 15, 2012, 01:17 PM)

Taking a look

dr_andus · « **Reply #17 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:40 PM »

I don't see the tool.

-Contro (November 17, 2012, 12:30 PM)

See http://www.a-pdf.com/word-to-pdf/index.htm

You can create PDF from Microsoft Word files (*.doc) with bookmarks using A-PDF Word to PDF.

Disclaimer: I haven't tried that one.

kilele · « **Reply #18 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:49 PM »

@Contro, I don't grasp what you try to accomplish.
If you have a msword document with a toc, then that's sort of having already bookmarks..

kilele · « **Reply #19 on:** November 17, 2012, 01:28 PM »

Is your toc a real toc generated by msword or just an index made by hand?
msword autogenerates a toc (with links/bookmarks) by taking text with 'heading' styles,
there has to be some way to automatically assign a heading style (h1,h2,h3..) to any any keyword of your interest and then insert a toc to create links.

Contro · « **Reply #20 on:** November 17, 2012, 01:43 PM »

Not to hijack a thread, but I need something else entirely. I have been trying to get a script to extract the bookmark, and the pages to the next bookmark, and name them after the bookmark. Like extracting chapters in a book to separate files.

I get a 500 page PDF with loan documents in it, bookmarked the Note, the Mortgage, Title policy etc. I need to extract those sections and hopefully name them after the bookmark. So if page 0 is bookmarked "Note", 1, 2 ,3, pages, then the next bookmark on page four is "Flood", I need pages 0,1,2,3 extracted to a file called "Note". Then the next to "Flood" and so forth through the entire file. I am using Acrobat Pro XI, so a javascript or sequence is preferred.
-y0himba (November 15, 2012, 12:58 PM)

Don't worry . Seems a nice idea.
But exists ?

Contro · « **Reply #21 on:** November 17, 2012, 01:45 PM »

@Contro, I don't grasp what you try to accomplish.
If you have a msword document with a toc, then that's sort of having already bookmarks..

-kilele (November 17, 2012, 12:49 PM)

Sometimes I have a TOC.
this post is when we don't have a toc.
But I try to get your help too in this aspect.
Best Regards

Contro · « **Reply #22 on:** November 17, 2012, 01:47 PM »

Is your toc a real toc generated by msword or just an index made by hand?
msword autogenerates a toc (with links/bookmarks) by taking text with 'headline' styles,
there has to be some way to automatically assign a headline style (h1,h2,h3..) to any any keyword of your interest and then insert a toc to create links.
-kilele (November 17, 2012, 01:28 PM)

I have both things.
I use office xp or 2002.
Perhaps is late for me. I don't know. Simply a link with instructions please. Even another version of office may be useful.

At the present moment I don't understand nitro, but seems the answer.
Of course, I have to study.......

Contro · « **Reply #23 on:** November 17, 2012, 01:48 PM »

I don't see the tool.

-Contro (November 17, 2012, 12:30 PM)

See http://www.a-pdf.com/word-to-pdf/index.htm

You can create PDF from Microsoft Word files (*.doc) with bookmarks using A-PDF Word to PDF.

Disclaimer: I haven't tried that one.
-dr_andus (November 17, 2012, 12:40 PM)

I have to revise. Excuse me please if I am not that clever. But now seems possible even for me.

Best Regards

Contro · « **Reply #24 on:** November 17, 2012, 03:53 PM »

a-pdf.com require ghostcript from sourceforge.
A little complicated.

I will revise Nitro.