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Automated BookMarking

Brian68
Registered: Jul 30 2007
Posts: 15
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I have thousands of PDF books that need Table of Contents bookmarking and in need of an automated method without opening each document. The TOC rarely is on the same page or is named in many ways (Table of Contents, Contents, TOC, Whats Inside). Also, the chapters vary (Chapter 1, Section 1, One, Part 1 or By Title) and to make it more difficult the destination page may be number differently that the PDF page numbering (Chapter 1 = Page 21 of PDF). The solution can be in any platform from Mac, Windows, Unix, Linux, ect...

thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
From what you describe, I doubt you'll find a generic solution. You might want to look at Aerilist from www.artspdf.com. This is a PDF toolset that includes intelligent bookmarking. Probably the best general bookmarking solution available. If this doesn't work for you, you'll need to hire a developer to create a custom solution.

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Brian68
Registered: Jul 30 2007
Posts: 15
Thanks,
I will download the trail.. Prior attempts have been with Kapsware, Evermap, ISITool Kit & PDFTools.com and new to me is Olive Software. So far each of these offer great interactive support but none of these work well for automating this process.brian68
DuffJohnson
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Registered: May 30 2006
Posts: 96
Automating this process on what amounts to essentially arbitrary inputs is very, very difficult, and I don't believe you'll find a fully automated solution for it.

I would suggest you proceed in the following manner:

1) Find a solution that works for each type of PDF (ie, each distinct configuration with respect to ToC, chapters, etc)
2) Spend the time required to group the PDF files in this way (this will require opening each one, for sure)
3) Then, execute your solution against each type-group

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