pdfBookMark

extract table of contents from pdf into bookmarks

Requirements

• ghostscript
• pdftk
• pdftotext (from poppler, may included in Tex distributions)
  • Windows

both installed and added to the PATH

Usage

find string in specific pages

PS> all.ps1 <pdf> [<string> = 'Chapter'] [<pages to omit>]

for pages, use (1..10+15) to express page 1 to 10 plus page 15

extract table of contents

PS> table.ps1 <pdf> <page range> [<page count of page 1>] [<str>] [<separate char>]

Use 8,10 to specify page range 8-10

modify the text manually if the result is not accurate

If the OCR-generated text from the PDF file is inaccurate, you can use this command to extract the text with the original layout:

PS> pdftotext -f <first page> -l <last page> -layout -nopgbrk -raw <pdf> <output>

You can then edit the text file manually to correct any errors, and use

PS> table.ps1 <pdf> [<page count of page 1>] [<str>] [<separate char>] -text <text file>

Example

all.ps1

table.ps1