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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
k2pdfopt (free, open source) can also do this by supplying a text file. See the -toclist option. Use like so:
k2pdfopt -mode copy -n -toclist my_chapter_list.txt srcfile.pdf -o outfile.pdf
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
Jpdfbookmark can work for scanned books
Prepare the TOC in .txt file
Chapter 1. The Beginning/23
Para 1.1 Child of The Beginning/25,FitWidth,96
Para 1.1.1 Child of Child of The ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
I wrote an open source command line toolset called pdf.tocgen just for doing this. It uses the embedded font attributes and position information of headings to generate a table of contents ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
THIS PART IS EDITED
For 'software-generated' PDF-files, i.e. PDF's not created from scans, I recommend to use (and upvote the answer by Krasjet) pdf.tocgen. Using this package becomes even easier with ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
I am used to a simple and free tool that adds clickable bookmarks to PDF or DjVU files: http://handyoutlinerfo.sourceforge.net/.
You first have to prepare (and import in the tool) bookmarks entered ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
The best solution I found:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/PdfMod
Extract:
You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject, author, and keywords, and ...
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What are "open" and "closed" settings in PDF bookmarks?
When you initially open your PDF file in your favorite PDF reader, the "open"/"closed" option determines whether the bookmark is by default expanded (open) or not (closed).
For ...
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How to OCR tables of contents to proper outputs?
Define what is: "fix it at the first place".
If you want to fix wrong output from OCR analysis, a simple solution on an infinite set of TOCs you will never make.
You will never apply all variations. ...
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Best practice for ebook with large number of chapters (e.g. in thousands)
A web post about epub expandable TOC was discussed at the following link (and there's an example epub too).
The discussion there might yield a solution for you, or at least be worth reading (and view ...
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Trying to repair unresolved hyperlinks in TOCs that crop up from time to time in conversions
I learned about Calibre's ability to edit and attempt to repair these types of issues. Bring it into Calibre's book editor w/ 'T' and do a repair check and allow it to repair what it can. This took ...
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Hash (#) in filename loses chapter information when converted with calibre
First, I don't have any insight into CLI calibre and you might get a better answer from Mobileread or by posting a bug, but my guess is that the # character must be reserved exclusively for fragment ...
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Nested menus in Mobi
The Amazon Publishing Guidelines has sample code for making a nested html TOC.
It's on page 16
<div>Section 1</div>
<div style="margin-left:2%;">Chapter 1</div>
<div ...
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ePub 3: Finding the Navigation document
I'll post an answer which seems to be working for me.
I found relevant documentation here: http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#sec-package-documents
Using Ruby and Nokogiri, I ...
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Epub without a Table of Contents, is it possible?
I'm guessing that you are asking the question in the wrong way: you actually want to hide the HTML entries from the TOC so that the TOC doesn't spoil any surprises. I have good news. In epub3 you can ...
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My HTML toc is not showing up in Calbre MOBI output
Just a suggestion but you could try:
Outputting your DOCX format to html from within MS-Word,
Making sure that it all works including the ToC, when it is in HTML format, preferably using more than ...
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Sub-chapters based on h2 tags in ePub file
Calibre editor has a graphical interface that lets you edit the ToC of a given ebook file (the ToC editor itself is accesible also from the default window, without the need to open the full editor).
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
So in 2023, a better way to do this is to use cpdf and an LLM (large language model), like GPT4.
To add bookmarks to a PDF using its Table of Contents (TOC) with cpdf, follow these steps:
Extract the ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
I understand most of you probably prefer an open source command line based solution but sometimes a good app can save you a lot of time.
If you're on a Mac I can recommend:
https://www.onekerato.com/...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
WPS office suite on Windows allows creating or editing pdf's TOC
Be aware that it's a bit invasive though (shortcuts, default, runs in background...)
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
Here is my repository that I plan to automate the procedure.
https://github.com/aminya/tocPDF
For now, it is the manual procedure (which is also inspired by other people answers).
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