HOWTO: Exporting index in PDF file

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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On 05/23/2013 07:18 AM, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote:
> Hello world!
> 
> Some pdf files has a built-in index that can be used for navigation,
> which in most cases, are shown in the left side plate of the PDF
> browser, for example `evince`. If still not clear, you may think of
> latex generated pdf files (most of them has this structured index
> navigation).
> 
> *How to export the index structure used for nevigation as plain text?*
> Implementing this index navigation feature into pdf browsers like
> `evince` clearly needs this as in important API. 

It's called 'bookmarks' in PDF lingo.

If you are asking about a tool available in Ubuntu, then it's pdftk, for
example. There probably are more. From pdftk ma page:

pdftk in.pdf dump_data output report.txt

Both PDF specification and evince, pdftk sources are open, so you are
welcome to take a look at how it is done, if this is what your inquiry
was about.

Sarunas Burdulis
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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