IndexifyPDF

A CLI tool to manipulate a PDF file's index.

Warning

This is work in progress

IndexifyPDF is a CLI tool written in Python meant to streamline the manipulation of a PDF file's index, sometimes known as bookmarks. It uses PDFtk server to extract a PDF file's index data, adds index entries specified by the user, and again uses PDFtk to write the data back to a (new) PDF file.

Note

PDFtk server must be installed!

Status

Implemented

• Read info from PDF
• Write info to PDF
• Parse raw info
• Add single entry

To implement soon

• UI for adding a single entry
• Clean temporary files
• Add checks for data, raise errors, etc.
• Make executable (?)

Planned features

• Review index before writing to PDF
• Fine tune index (e.g. in case of adding an entry to a page that already contains an entry - currently the new entry is inserted after existing ones)
• Edit entries
• Add full index from text file

Imagined features

• Generate index based on table of contents (using OCR)
• Generate index based on headings in the pdf (using machine learning)