This step isn’t necessary, but it simplifies things a bit. You’ll use fields in a separate table of contents document.īefore you start, if possible, save the documents that comprise the table of contents to the same folder. If you’re working with two or more documents, Word’s table of contents feature won’t work the same way, but it’s not impossible – it isn’t even hard. In the last blog post, I showed you how to generate a table of contents based on built-in heading styles. I is possible to create a single table of contents for multiple Word documents, it just requires an extra step or two. Anyway, still Emacs its amazing PDF-tools and Zathura are my favorite PDF editor and viewer respectively).How to create one table of contents from multiple documents Okular is doing very well of course also. It works well under wine.Īlthough not related to the question, I just would like to add that at the moment PDF X-Change viewer appears to me to be the most powerful PDF editor/viewer on linux. If these options do not work, then I would also like to recommend PDF-XChange Viewer as a very powerful bookmark/contents extractor (selected text can be easily added to the bookmarks). However, I would suggest you try the python script called document-contents-extractor to extract the contents. (Not enough reputation points to comment) Like the answer by Patrick Bourdon, I would also recommend HandyOutliner. In case this package's functionality is not sufficient or using Emacs is no option then the remaining part of this answer remains valid. It includes options to extract the TOC via OCR, and one can use Emacs/Evil (vim) keyboard macro's and the handy table editor to fix it. Using this package becomes even easier with the toc-mode package for (Spac)Emacs described next.įor all other PDF and DJVU documents there is a package called toc-mode for Emacs, which in my opinion provides the easiest way to add Table of Contents to documents (for linux and possibly also for different OS's).
PDF's not created from scans, I recommend to use (and upvote the answer by Krasjet) pdf.tocgen. I hope you find it useful.įor 'software-generated' PDF-files, i.e. Please read the homepage for the details on how to use this toolset. Save it as recipe.toml, and use the pdftocgen command to automatically generate an outline $ pdftocgen onlisp.pdf tocĪnd import it to the PDF file using pdftocio: $ pdftocio -o output.pdf onlisp.pdf < toc
You could use the pdfxmeta tool to build a "recipe" file ] It uses the embedded font attributes and position information of headings to generate a table of contents automatically.įor example, for the PDF version Paul Graham's On Lisp, available for download on his website but comes without a table of contents.
I wrote an open source command line toolset called pdf.tocgen just for doing this.
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